Myriad responses are required for all parts of the substandard drug problem.

Medicines have to pass through a rigorous series of clinical trials to prove their efficacy and safety; by bypassing systems that are in place, the manufacturers of counterfeit medicines are not only illegally profiting from others' endeavors--they are also putting patients' lives at risk.

The Global Fund is to be commended for its transparency, but it has failed to act on the information it has gleaned, and continues to allow its funds to be used by governmental distribution systems known to be corrupt.

Only South Africa, which is using DDT and artemisinin-based drug therapy, has malaria firmly under control.

Government regulation imposes enormous "taxes" on drug development that are ultimately passed along to consumers as higher prices.

Government regulation imposes enormous "taxes" on drug development that are ultimately passed along to consumers as higher prices.

It's stunning, the degree to which a misguided and deeply cynical policy run by Paris has managed over the last four years to rally much of the world against the United States--and in support of Saddam Hussein's tyrannical regime.

This article is aboutthe degree to which a misguided and deeply cynical policy run by Paris has managed over the last four years to rally much of the world against the United States -- and in support of Saddam Hussein's tyrannical regime.