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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 ...
E. S. F. Orubu, C. Ching, M. H. Zaman, V. J. Wirtz   +3 more
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Environmental DNA as an innovative technique to identify the origins of falsified antimalarial tablets—a pilot study of the pharmabiome

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, Craig Liddicoat, Kor-jent van Dijk, Patricia Tabernero, Celine Caillet, Nicholas J. White, Adrian Linacre, Jeremy J. Austin, Paul N. Newton   +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 ...
Hoellein L, Kaale E, Hebron Mwalwisi Y, Schulze MH, Vetye-Maler C, Holzgrabe U   +5 more
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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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Substandard and Falsified Medicines: Proposed Methods for Case Finding and Sentinel Surveillance

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2021
The World Health Organization and others warn that substandard and falsified medicines harm health and waste money, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
Elizabeth Pisani, Amalia Hasnida, Mawaddati Rahmi, Maarten Olivier Kok, Steven Harsono, Yusi Anggriani   +5 more
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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.
Piotr Merks, Mariola Drozd, Urszula Religioni   +2 more
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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.
Huma Rasheed, Ludwig Hoellein, Khalid Saeed Bukhari, Ulrike Holzgrabe   +3 more
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A Cross-Sectional Investigation for Verification of Globalization of Falsified Medicines in Cambodia, Indicated by Tablets of Sildenafil Citrate

Pharmacy, 2019
Medicine falsification is a global issue. Viagra, an erectile dysfunction therapeutic (EDT) medicine consisting primarily of sildenafil citrate, is the most commonly falsified medicine worldwide.
Naoko Yoshida, Miku Yuasa, Tey Sovannarith, Eav Dararth, Tep Keila, Heng Bun Kiet, Hirohito Tsuboi, Tsuyoshi Tanimoto, Kazuko Kimura   +8 more
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Substandard, falsified and unregistered medicines in Latin America, 2017-2018

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2020
Objective. To assess all the incidents of substandard, falsified and unregistered medicines in 2017 and 2018 in Latin America, determining the types of products affected, stages of the supply chain in which incidents were detected, quality deviations ...
Robin Rojas-Cortés
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The usefulness of infrared spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffraction in the analysis of falsified, illegal, and medicinal products [PDF]

Frontiers in Chemistry
Jan Maurin
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