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"India has taken the lead to get together a number of generic drug-producing nations to call for better definitions to ensure quality, strengthening of regulatory authorities in the respective countries, and bringing focus of the world to public health instead of intellectual property," PHARMABIZ.com writes in an article that examines the recent meeting of leaders from Brazil, India and South Africa on issues regarding counterfeit medicines. "The initiative came as an inter-governmental working group, appointed by the World Health Assembly last year, is looking at the WHO's role to ensure the availability of quality, safe and efficacious and affordable medicine," according to the new service.