According to Living Goods, clients may also be reluctant to buy drugs from
other private providers because
of the risk
of getting a counterfeit
medicine.63 Living Goods sent us a study conducted at the midline
of its RCT that claims that both availability
of counterfeit drugs and drug prices decreased at private retailers in
areas where CHPs worked.64 According to the study, about 37 %
of private drug shops in the
areas it studied sold fake ACT drugs, 65 and availabilty
of fake ACTs was about 50 % lower among non-Living Goods sellers in the
areas where Living Goods worked.66 Additional results on these potential effects will be made available when the full RCT is published.
The Decision Counseling Program ©, applied here for prostate cancer treatment decision making, is a generic approach that can be applied to
other areas of medicine,
where options are available, decisions are difficult, and the stakes
of decision making are high.
In production animal
areas where there is a shortage
of veterinarians, we want to continue to provide incentives and to help enable schools
of veterinary
medicine and
others to see the tremendous opportunities there are for veterinarians in the food animal sector.