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Fake Drugs Impede Progress Made In Malaria War
msnbc.com 1 week, 1 day agoA study says more than a third of malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality.
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Fake Drugs Threaten Gains Made In War On Malaria
yahoo.com 1 week, 1 day agoLONDON (Reuters) - Low-quality and fake anti-malarial drugs flooding into markets in Asia and Africa are driving drug resistance and threatening gains made in the fight against the disease in the past decade, according to a study by global health experts. The study found around 36 percent of anti-malarial drugs analysed in southeast Asia were fake, while a third of samples in sub-Saharan Africa failed chemical testing because they contained either too much or not enough active ingredient. The researchers sa










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