Values in motion: anti-counterfeiting measures and the securitization of pharmaceutical flows

Quet, Mathieu

doi:10.1080/17530350.2016.1258001

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“…In 2008, Kenya passed an Anti-counterfeit Act, which prevented the damage caused by products such as fake medicines (Quet, 2017). However, there have been controversies in the country in which a thin line exists between counterfeit drugs and parallel importation which brings challenges in the business environment of the pharmaceutical industry.…”

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“…From the viewpoint of the pharmaceutical industry, there is the view that allowing parallel importation of pharmaceuticals slows down the development of new pharmaceuticals. This hinders the pace of innovation in the industry, which, in turn, hinders not only the performance of the pharmaceutical industry but also the performance of individual pharmaceutical companies (Quet, 2017). In lieu of this, the companies, therefore, seek to ensure that strong patents for pharmaceutical products are implemented on a global scale so as to ban parallel trade.…”

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“…In developing countries, however, consumer perceptions are also led by a lack of political will and leadership which identifies the domestic healthcare needs of the people (Quet, 2017). In Sub Saharan Africa, for instance, the health care system is marred with a lot of corruption, and this creates perceptions from the consumers that they cannot be properly assisted.…”

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Economic and Social Effects of Parallel Importation of Pharmaceutical Products on Organisational Performance in Pharmaceutical Firms in Kenya

Kalekye¹,

Kariuki²

2020

Editon Cons. J. Econ. Dev. Stud.

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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of parallel importation of pharmaceutical products on the organisational performance of pharmaceutical firms in Kenya. The paper is guided by research objectives that are focused on: the economic effects of parallel importation of pharmaceutical products on organisational performance and the social effects of parallel importation of pharmaceutical products on organisational performance. This paper concludes that the issue of economic and social effects of parallel importation and how they affect the organizational performance of pharmaceutical companies in Kenya is rich for exploration and recommends that a study be conducted focusing on parallel importation and organizational performance of pharmaceutical companies; especially now that a clear legal framework on parallel importation has been put in place.

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Economic and Social Effects of Parallel Importation of Pharmaceutical Products on Organisational Performance in Pharmaceutical Firms in Kenya

Kalekye¹,

Kariuki²

2020

Editon Cons. J. Econ. Dev. Stud.

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“…It is also this tension that animates the politics of the medical copy and reconfigures questions about access to medication, and which value, health, or financial, is attached to the distinction between the good copy and the bad. Drug security further intervenes in this double bind and offers new possibilities for creating value (Quet ). While drug security efforts by the pharmaceutical industry aim at protecting the existing value of their medication, the concern for drug security produces, in the form of suspicion and association, new value not just for the industry but other agents as well, such as security personnel and traders and perhaps even consumers.…”

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From Drug Safety to Drug Security: A Contemporary Shift in the Policing of Health

Hornberger

2018

Med Anthropol Q

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The counterfeiting of medication is increasingly seen as a major threat to health, especially in the light of both the everyday reliance on and a broadening of world-wide access to pharmaceuticals. Exaggerated or real, this threat has inaugurated, this article argues, a shift from a drug safety regime to a drug security regime that governs the flow of pharmaceuticals and brings together markets, police, and health actors in new ways. This entails a shift from soft disciplinary means aimed at incremental and continued inclusion of defaulters, to one of drastically sovereign measures of exclusion and banishment aimed at fake goods and the people associated with them, in the name of health. Through a multi-sited ethnographic study, this article shows how such new drug security efforts play themselves out especially in (South) Africa, highlighting a modus operandi of spectacular performativity and of working through suspicion and association rather than factuality, producing value less so for those in need of health than for a petty security industry itself.

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“…Perhaps due to the fact that pharmaceuticals are one of the most widespread and lucrative objects on Earth, however, specialized anthropological works have paid considerable attention toand considerably complicatedthe economy of drugs. Pharmaceutical value is produced through drug development, clinical trials or regimes of intellectual property and benefit sharing (Hayden 2003, 2007, Sunder Rajan 2006; it is forged by inducing patients to consume more drugs thus generating a surplus (Dumit 2012a, Sunder Rajan 2017; it involves investors evaluating profits and growth (Peterson 2016): it has shifted due to current emphasis on distribution and control rather than production (Quet 2016). In many of these cases, values may be plural but remain firmly anchored in a monetary reasoning.…”

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Unstable pharmaceutical values: the grey political economy of drug circulation in Cambodia

Pordié¹

2021

BioSocieties

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This paper uses the circulation of drugs as a port of entry to understanding the fabric of pharmaceutical values. As they circulate, pharmaceuticals encounter a plurality of worlds ranging from the global spheres of transnational transactions to situated localities and their specific realities. A nexus of manufacturers, regulators, importers, distributors, middlemen, sellers and consumers all share a convergent center of interest in drugs. All value pharmaceuticals. Just as their motivations, means and practices of valuing are diverse and sometimes opposed, the resulting pharmaceutical values are multiple, variable and contested. Cambodia is a case in point since the production of pharmaceutical values in this country is entangled in licit and illicit circulation and practices. Value-making brings to light matters of exchange and money, therapeutic efficacy and toxicity, prescription modalities and epistemology, location and esthetics, and ultimately corruption, risks and justice. This entanglement sets the ground for the definition and study of a grey political economy, which is qualified as interstitial, multivalent and sensitive to circumstances. Here, pharmaceutical values are produced through creative agency and arrangements, unexpected social combinations, material and pharmacological heterodoxies. This situation opens up a rich terrain for the exploration of the relation between drug circulation, modes of valuation and pharmaceutical values.

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Values in motion: anti-counterfeiting measures and the securitization of pharmaceutical flows

Cited by 9 publications

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Economic and Social Effects of Parallel Importation of Pharmaceutical Products on Organisational Performance in Pharmaceutical Firms in Kenya

Economic and Social Effects of Parallel Importation of Pharmaceutical Products on Organisational Performance in Pharmaceutical Firms in Kenya

From Drug Safety to Drug Security: A Contemporary Shift in the Policing of Health

Unstable pharmaceutical values: the grey political economy of drug circulation in Cambodia

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