Substandard and Falsified Medicines in Myanmar [PDF]
Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland), 2020 Background: substandard and falsified medicines (SFMs) are a threat to public health. The availability of SFMs in Myanmar was reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1999, but there have been few systematic surveys on falsified medicines in ...
Naoko Yoshida +2 more
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Falsified Medicines—Bridging the Gap between Business and Public Health [PDF]
Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland), 2016 The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most regulated industries in the world. While legislation is necessary to protect patients, too much legislation is said to hamper innovation and increase medicine prices.
Rasmus Borup
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A Cross-Sectional Investigation for Verification of Globalization of Falsified Medicines in Cambodia, Indicated by Tablets of Sildenafil Citrate [PDF]
Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland), 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 +2 more
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Substandard and Falsified Medicines: Proposed Methods for Case Finding and Sentinel Surveillance [PDF]
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 +5 more
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Sounding out falsified medicines from genuine medicines using Broadband Acoustic Resonance Dissolution Spectroscopy (BARDS) [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The trade in falsified medicine has increased significantly and it is estimated that global falsified sales have reached $100 billion in 2020. The EU Falsified Medicines Directive states that falsified medicines do not only reach patients through illegal
Anas Alfarsi +9 more
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Substandard and falsified medicines in Africa: healthcare systems challenges, supply chain issues, regulatory challenges and strategies to increase access to quality medicines [PDF]
Frontiers in PharmacologyAfrica is a unique continent due to high disease burden for both communicable and non-communicable diseases, attracting large-scale distribution of medicines to tackle public health issues.
Billy Chabalenge +3 more
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The uncertain role of substandard and falsified medicines in the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Approximately 10% of antimicrobials used by humans in low- and middle-income countries are estimated to be substandard or falsified. In addition to their negative impact on morbidity and mortality, they may also be important drivers of antimicrobial ...
Sean Cavany +9 more
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The impact of global falsified medicines regulation on healthcare stakeholders in the legitimate pharmaceutical supply chain: a systematic review [PDF]
Frontiers in MedicineBackgroundFalsified medicines and their international regulation impacts all healthcare sectors and their actors. These regulations aim to strengthen and protect the global pharmaceutical supply chain against falsified medicines.
Bernard Naughton
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Pharmacists' views on the impact of the Falsified Medicines Directive on community pharmacies: A cross-sectional survey [PDF]
Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2022 Background: The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) was implemented to minimise the circulation of falsified medicines in the legal pharmaceutical supply chain.
Kevin D Murphy, Kieran Dalton
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Current challenges in the detection and analysis of falsified medicines
Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2021 Falsified medicines affect public health all around the globe. Complex distribution routes, illegal online webshops and reuse of packaging materials make them hard to detect. In order to tackle this problem, detection methods for the recognition of suspicious medicines and subsequent confirmation of falsification by analytical techniques is required ...
Bastiaan Venhuis +1 more
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