Іnternet-pharmacies – analysis of the world experience

Abstract

In this article the main organizational features and approaches to legislative regulation of remote sale of medicines and other goods of pharmaceutical range, in particular, through the Internet-pharmacies, are examined. When summarizing the work experience of the internet-pharmacies in a number of countries, such as the USA, Canada, countries of the EU and post-Soviet countries, the basic legislative standards, organizational structures, present problems, possible ways of their solution and further prospects of development of this kind of activity on the world pharmaceutical market are analyzed.