The agency will begin working to stop the illegal trade in Africa later this year, building on the success of its work fighting the problem in Latin America and Southeast Asia. “We have learned a lot of lessons in those regions and we are now able to apply those to Africa,” said John Newton, manager of Interpol’s intellectual property rights project.
Interpol will work with African police officers and train them to track and uncover counterfeit-medicine-smuggling networks. According to the World Health Organization, up to 30 percent of medications sold in Africa are fake.
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