Posts Tagged ‘Africa’
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…
[...]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…
[...]Kenya awash with counterfeit anti-Malaria drugs
Malaria drugs recalled in Kenya
A Chinese pharmaceutical firm plans to recall thousands of anti-malarial drugs supplied to Kenya after discovering a counterfeit syndicate. The vice-president of Holley-Cotec Pharmaceuticals said 20,000 doses of Duo-cotecxin will be removed from sale. He told the BBC an analysis of the counterfeit product showed it had very low active ingredients and patients taking it…
[...]Zimbabwe: Fake ARVs Flood Country
UNLICENSED drug dealers are flooding the market with a variety of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) that could do more harm than good, the country's medicines regulatory body has warned. The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) said this week that individual drug importers had flooded the local market with ARVs, which they are selling from unlicensed…
[...]Sierra Leone: Le 500m Counterfeit Drugs Destroyed
Sierra Leone's Pharmacy Board Friday destroyed over Le 500 million fake and counterfeit drugs. The destruction exercise took place at the Central Medical Stores compound, New England Ville in Freetown. The destruction was aimed at eradicating fake, substandard and counterfeit drugs nationwide. Health and Sanitation Minister, Abator Thomas noted that the exercise is another mile…
[...]Nigeria: NAFDAC Destroys N20bn Counterfeit Drugs
Director General of the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Dora Akunyili, said yesterday in Akure, Ondo State, that the Agency destroyed counterfeit drugs worth not less than N20 billion in the last six years. Akunyili, in a key note address delivered on her behalf by head of the Ondo State…
[...]The lure of fake pharmaceuticals
Nigeria: China’s Condemned Drugs Boss
A recent report from far away China may have unwittingly demonstrated how pervasive and pernicious the issue of drugs adulteration is around the world and also how different nations have chosen to react to the scourge. According to the report, a Chinese law court had been so disgusted with the illegal, unethical and murderous certification…
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