GSK Launches Campaign To Help Germans Use OTC Drugs Correctly
Executive Summary
More than 50% of Germans do not use OTC medicines correctly, research by GSK Consumer Healthcare shows. To address this, the firm is launching an awareness raising campaign under the banner “Bewusst richtig handeln.”
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