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Impact of Poor-quality Medicines in the 'developing' World

Overview
Journal Trends Pharmacol Sci
Specialty Pharmacology
Date 2010 Feb 2
PMID 20117849
Citations 100
Authors
Paul N Newton
Michael D Green
Facundo M Fernandez
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Abstract

Since our ancestors began trading several millennia ago, counterfeit and substandard medicines have been a recurring problem, with history punctuated by crises in the supply of anti-microbials, such as fake cinchona bark in the 1600s and fake quinine in the 1800s. Unfortunately this problem persists, in particular afflicting unsuspecting patients in 'developing' countries. Poor-quality drugs are a vital (but neglected) public health problem. They contribute to a 'crevasse' between the enormous effort in therapeutic research and policy decisions and implementation of good-quality medicines.

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