The donor community spends millions of dollars annually on procuring essential medicines as part of development assistance for health. Defining and enforcing quality standards for these medicines continues to prove challenging as this involves complex regulatory processes. While developed...

We present a modified Deffuant-Weisbuch opinion dynamics model that integrates the influence of media campaigns on opinion. Media campaigns promote messages intended to inform and influence the opinions of the targeted audiences through factual and emotional appeals. Media campaigns take many...