The Congress of Andrology studied how to combat dangerous counterfeit medications.

-organised crime is changing the business of narcotics by counterfeit medicines

Palma de Mallorca, 2011-April The danger of the abundance of counterfeit drugs are available from other sites on the Internet will be one of the topics to be discussed during the fifteenth National Congress of AFESA, Spanish Association of Andrology, Sexual Medicine and reproductive ” to be held this weekend in Palma de Mallorca.

The problem is spreading globally, ” confirms Serafín Castro, Chief Commissioner of the police Judicial unit crime specialized and violent (UDEV) in Madrid. it has become a large dimension for the organized crime business and we have dealers of narcotics that have become the business of counterfeit medicines. Global networks are those who run this market. During the operation “Pangaea ”, macrooperación, co-ordinated by Interpol in which interventions were made by 47 countries, they detained 60 people, including 2 in Spain. ”

DRA.” Anna Puigvert, President of AFESA meanwhile confirmed that counterfeiting behave a serious social health problem that these drugs do not have the appropriate active principle either is replaced with substances hazardous to the health ”.

This weekend will take place the fifteenth National Congress of AFESA in the Mallorcan capital to present scientific and medical advances related to the sexual medicine; reproduction and other aspects of Andrology.

Proper names

DRA. Anna Puigvert, President of AFESA. Andróloga. Director of the Iandroms Institute of Andrology and Sexual Medicine of Barcelona.

Dr. Mariano Rosselló, President of the Organizing Committee. Andrologist… Founder and Director of the Centre for Urology, Andrology and Sexual health of Balearic Islands, located in the Clínica Rotger, and Madrid.

Dr.Ignacio Moncada, President of the Scientific Committee. Andrologist. Head of the service of Urology of the Hospital La Zarzuela, Madrid.

Dr.Rafael Prieto, Vice Secretary General of the Association Spanish of Andrology. Andrologist, responsible for the unit of Andrology, reproductive and Sexual Medicine and functional unit of Urology at the Hospital Regional Universitario Queen Sofia of Córdoba.

AFESA (Spanish Association of Andrology, reproductive and Sexual Medicine):

Their main missions are:

-promoting the study, exploration, research and analysis of any aspect that makes reference to sexual function and reproductive male.

-Develop the knowledge and dissemination of the Andrology.

Andrology

The Andrology is the medical area devoted to sexual and reproductive medicine. It is any aspect of sexual function in both members of the couple; human reproduction and male contraception.