In order to provide the best possible care to their patients, doctors rely on pharmaceutical companies to provide accurate and balanced information about their medicines and vaccines. Merck believes the best way to accomplish this goal is to maintain informative, ethical and professional relationships between health care providers and pharmaceutical companies. Our interactions with health care providers, other customers and consumers are governed by laws and regulations, and our long-standing global code of ethical conduct and guidance. We enforce these through our global business practices and compliance program.

We recognize that both our reputation for integrity and the trust our stakeholders place in us are dependent on our ethical practices. For this reason, we want to make certain that the ways in which we market and sell our products to health care professionals, health insurers and governments provide accurate, balanced and useful information to enable prescribers to make the best decisions for their patients. We believe that our adherence to the highest ethical sales and marketing standards will ensure that scientific information is the predominant factor in prescribing decisions. This will help to reinforce our reputation for providing high-quality products and for significant contributions to improving public health.

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