Can Systemic Corruption be Prevented by Legal Means? The Market for Pharmaceuticals in Southern Ethiopia

Some international and national regulatory and policy actors assume that strengthening domestic laws and tightening enforcement measures will be sufficient to reduce the extra-legal supply of medicines, whether legal, substandard, or falsified, to patients in low- and middle-income countries. The case study was analyzed through the frame of Actor-Network Theory, to trace the journey of medicines from producer to consumer. The extra-legal supply of medicine is an important global public health concern, but it will only be reduced by measures that place law and regulation within the context of local markets and legal supply chains.

Mengesha, A., Bastiaens, H., Ravinetto, R., Gibson, L., & Dingwall, R. (2025). Can Systemic Corruption be Prevented by Legal Means? The Market for Pharmaceuticals in Southern Ethiopia. Public Integrity, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999922.2025.2539025

https://doi.org/10.1080/10999922.2025.2539025