Archive for 2007
Nigeria: Nafdac Launches Campaign Against Fake Drugs in Abaji
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has launched an enlightenment campaign in Abaji area council. A statement issued yesterday by Mallam Umar Salihu Kombo, press secretary to Abaji area council chairman, said the aim of the campaign was to lessen the dangers of fake, adulterated and expired drugs to the…
[...]Illegal online pharmacies cause losses to pharmaceutical manufacturers
Losses amounting to several billions of euros are caused to official pharmaceutical companies annually by tens of thousands of online pharmacies. Illegal medicines bought from the Internet are often stolen or counterfeit drugs, and frequently the contents of these cheap copies is not what it should be. According to the World Health Organization WHO, around…
[...]Zimbabwe: Fake ARVs Threaten Lives
The high cost antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and inadequate control mechanisms in Zimbabwe are driving a flourishing trade in fake ARVs by unlicensed dealers, activists have warned. The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) recently issued a statement warning the public that the dealers were importing and selling counterfeit ARVs to unsuspecting HIV-positive people who needed…
[...]World Health Organization says willing to help in fake drugs study
Less than a month after completing its own study in India to estimate the incidence of counterfeit and spurious drugs in the local market, the World Health Organization (WHO) is willing to extend its financial as well as technical support to a proposed countrywide survey on fake drugs mooted by the Union ministry of health…
[...]INTERNET DISTRIBUTOR CHARGED WITH TRAFFICKING IN FAKE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
(HOUSTON, Texas) � The owner of Pacific Orient International Ltd. has been charged in a nine-count indictment with conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and trafficking in counterfeit pharmaceuticals, United States Attorney Don DeGabrielle announced today. Kevin Xu, 36, the owner and operator of Orient Pacific International, a corporation located in the Peoples Republic of…
[...]Gambia: Dr Mboob Condemns Importation of Fake Drugs
Dr Papa Ousainou Mboob, a traditional medical practitioner and the Proprietor of Alhagie Alieu Mboob Memorial Clinic in Tobako Road, Banjul, has condemned rampant importation of fake drugs into the country, describing it as a dangerous threat to the health of innocent patients. Dr Mboob made this remark yesterday, in an interview with the Daily…
[...]Kenya: State Steps Up Campaign to Fight Fake Drugs
The fight against counterfeit drugs yesterday moved a notch higher with the launch of a crackdown on the dealers. Dr James Nyikal, the director of Medical Services, said the campaign by the Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) mainly targets dealers in counterfeit anti-malaria drugs. One person has been charged in court for selling counterfeit Duo-cotecxin…
[...]Fake Medications Are a Growing Threat
Counterfeit prescription drugs are a $35 billion-a-year business, and it's growing; by some estimates, 50 percent of prescription drugs in Africa, including those used to treat AIDS and malaria, are fake. Americans have long considered themselves immune, but a huge proportion of the prescription medications and devices used in the United States are now manufactured…
[...]Price control hinders fight against fake drugs
MUMBAI: Price control of drugs in India is making it difficult for companies to fight against spurious medicines as they are unable to set off the resultant increase in cost, Nicolas Piramal Director Swati Piramal said today. "The government does not provide for additional cost while fixing the prices for drugs," she said. Spurious drugs…
[...]Industry vows to fight fake drugs
NEW DELHI: The pharma industry has come up with a solution to curb the menace of fake drugs being rampantly sold in the country. The industry has sought permission of chemicals ministry, the administrative ministry for drug pricing, to allow an increase of 3-4% on drug retail prices so that it can introduce tamper-proof packaging…
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