Combating falsified medicines in Africa through digital artefacts [PDF]
, 2016 Falsified medicines are again in the news, this time in a piece for the BBC News’ websites business section. In his article, Matthew Wall looks at the problem of combating falsified, counterfeit and substandard anti-malarial medicines in Africa through ...
Hibberd, Ralph
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Tackling the blind spot of poor-quality medicines in Universal Health Coverage
Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2020 Background Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is challenged by the prevalence of poor-quality medicines, those that either do not meet required specifications (substandard) or are outrightly fraudulent (falsified), especially in Low- and Middle-Income ...
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Falsified medicines are a major threat to global health. Antimalarial drugs have been particularly targeted by criminals. As DNA analysis has revolutionized forensic criminology, we hypothesized that these techniques could also be used to investigate the
Jennifer M. Young +8 more
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Emerging Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Africa and Latin America: Search for Reasons
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2022 Ludwig Hoellein,1 Eliangiringa Kaale,2 Yonah Hebron Mwalwisi,3 Marco H Schulze,4 Carina Vetye-Maler,5 Ulrike Holzgrabe1 1Institute for Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; 2Muhimbili University of ...
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A New Handheld Device for the Detection of Falsified Medicines: Demonstration on Falsified Artemisinin-Based Therapies from the Field. [PDF]
, 2017 Poor-quality medicines are a major problem for health-care systems in resource-poor settings as identifying falsified medicines requires a complex laboratory infrastructure such as a Medicines Quality Control Laboratory. We report here an evaluation of a
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The scourge of substandard and falsified medical products gets worse with COVID-19 pandemic
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020 Although health professionals, communities, governments and global institutions work closely to halt the spread of COVID-19 and mitigate its societal impact, COVID-19 remains a challenge to many countries around the world.
Fisseha Shiferie, Eden Kassa
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Introduction of Good Practices of Drug Verification (DPWL) in hospital practice in Poland in order to protect against counterfeit drugs and improve patient safety [PDF]
Farmacja Polska, 2020 The phenomenon of counterfeit medicines is common in healthcare systems around the world, making it a global problem. The number of recorded cases of falsified drugs available on the market is increasing every year.
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Impact of Post Marketing Surveillance on Falsified Medicine in Nigeria.
, 2021 The thesis aims to evaluate the impacts of post marketing surveillance on falsified medicines among healthcare professionals (medical doctors and pharmacists) and consumers in Nigeria by conducting a questionnaire-based survey for quantitative research ...
Mgboko, Chukwudi Anthony
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Falsified Medicines, a Crime without Punishment [PDF]
, 2017 Falsified medicines are a global threat that does not stop growing. Its trafficking causes more deaths than malaria while being more profitable than drug smuggling.
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Regulatory framework in Pakistan: situation analysis of medicine quality and future recommendations
Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2019 Background Quality issues in pharmaceuticals are identified as a huge global and public health problem, especially with reference to low- and middle-income countries like Pakistan.
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