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Uganda: NDA Boss Grilled Over Fake Drugs
MEMBERS of Parliament on Monday quizzed officials from the National Drug Authority on the continued proliferation of counterfeit anti-malarial drugs in the country. The Parliamentary Committee on Commissions, Statutory Bodies and State Enterprises investigating NDA work was meeting the board members over policy issues. NDA is the national drug regulatory body. "We have reports that…
[...]Interpol to fight sale of fake medicines in Africa
International police body Interpol will join the fight against the growing trade in Africa in fake drugs for tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS which threatens the lives of thousands, a senior official said Tuesday. The agency's efforts will begin later this year and will build on its success in tackling the problem in Latin America and…
[...]Fake medicines pose big threat
Jacob Hassan was diagnosed with malaria. The medic prescribed three tablets of Metakelfin to be taken at once and three others after a week. Jacob lives at Mbagala Kibondemaji on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam City. As the medical facility had ran out of the tablets then, the patient decided to purchase the dose…
[...]Nigeria: Nafdac Destroys Fake Drugs Worth N20bn
In the last six years the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) destroyed fake drugs that would have sold in Nigeria's pharmacies for over N20 billion, the agency said yesterday. Director General, Dr. Dora Akunyili stated this in Abuja at the first annual international science conference/exhibition organised by laboratory equipment companies Katchey…
[...]Few Inspections for Foreign Drug Makers
Americas Watchdog Warns About Drug & Tobacco Counterfeiters in China & India and the Dire Need to Stop Them before it’s Too Late
After a 12 month long investigation into counterfeit pharmaceuticals and tobacco products Americas Watchdog launched Global Piracy & Counterfeiting Consultants as a way to address the issue of global counterfeiting and piracy( Http://GP-CC.Com ). Within the last few months public attention has been focused on China and India for making toys with lead based paint,…
[...]Report: China drug ingredients unregulated
At least 82 Chinese companies at the world's largest pharmaceutical ingredient trade show in Italy are not government-certified, The New York Times reports. The companies included Honor International Pharmtech, which allegedly sent counterfeit drugs to the United States, and Orient Pacific International, whose owner has been charged with selling counterfeit drugs for serious diseases like…
[...]Counterfeit Drugs In the News
New Report Warns 14 Types of Counterfeit Artesunate are Circulating in SE Asia The Wellcome Trust recently updated its report on counterfeit Artesunate, an anti-malarial medicine made by Guilin Pharma. Although Artesunate bears a hologram for security, multiple counterfeit forms of this hologram have been discovered and identified. According to the report’s author: “Although,…
[...]Nigeria: Dangers of Drug Counterfeiting
"The problem of counterfeit drugs and other regulated products is rapidly rearing its ugly head in developed countries and this is fueled by purchase of drugs via the internet. The negative impact of counterfeit drugs and other regulated products knows no boundaries. Resistant strains of micro-organisms do not need visa to travel from country to…
[...]Counterfeit Drugs, Killing
Many compelling reasons present themselves to oppose the spread of counterfeit drugs. Fakes represent theft of millions upon millions of dollars of value, undermine international protection of intellectual property, and its damage often redounds — unjustly — to pharmaceutical companies. And counterfeits kill. This article in The American, the magazine of the American Enterprise Institute,…
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