African Political Analysis Think-Tank Vignettes

Introduction: The developing world or global South has frequent drug shortages, does not have the staff, technology, political or social wherewithal to eradicate counterfeiters. Scholars and reports on counterfeiting have shown that the business of prescription medicine is an over $ 900 billion industry with 85% of the market in the global South. 30% of all counterfeits do not contain any active ingredient. There is a connection between knowledge,   demand for this industry, economic power, privilege and access to quality HIV-related services in different domestic countries. In the global South,   national-scale policy helps influence social relations and HIV prevalence reductions. This has involved policy change in many areas including import substitution and generic drug manufacture. This study looked into despite state-led domestic industrialization policies that allow for instance, drug manufacturing and other programming initiatives, there is a proliferation o...