Posts Tagged ‘Africa’

Kenya: Standard Codes to Curb Sale of Counterfeit Drugs Efficiency in provision of medical services may be boosted by a global identification standard, which will provide solutions to poor diagnosis, wrong prescriptions, expired and counterfeit drugs. The benchmark will help reduce the chances of giving wrong prescriptions thus improving management and distribution of drug inventories,…

AIDS drugs, some of them contaminated, diluted or faked, are being sold at flea markets and hairdressing salons in the face of growing shortages in clinics linked to Zimbabwe's economic crisis, the health ministry said Monday. State media quoted Minister of Health David Parirenyatwa appealing to people living with HIV/AIDS to buy their medicines from…

The management of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has,within the past six years, confiscated and destroyed fake and counterfeit drugs worth more than N20 billion. The Director General of NAFDAC, Professor Dora Akunyili, disclosed this in Owerri while delivering the 2007 Odenigbo Lecture Series organised by the Catholic…

DIRECTOR-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Dora Akunyili last Saturday said her agency has destroyed fake drugs worth over N20 billion in the last six years of its inception even as she lamented the activities of fake drug barons. She also disclosed that about 45 persons have…

The Lagos State House of Assembly (LSHA) has resolved to mandate the Committee on Health to liaise with the Ministry of Health with a view to investigate the distribution, supply and sale of fake drugs in the state. Mr. Ajibayo Adeyeye, Deputy Majority Leader, the prime mover of the motion, noted that the distribution, supply…

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…

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…

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…

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…