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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 the life-prolonging medication. 27 August…
Read MoreLess than a month after completing its own study in India to estimate the incidence of counterfeit and spurious drugs in the local market, the World Health Organization (WHO) is willing to extend its financial as well as technical support to a proposed countrywide survey on fake drugs mooted by the Union ministry of health and social welfare. The ministry…
Read More(HOUSTON, Texas) � The owner of Pacific Orient International Ltd. has been charged in a nine-count indictment with conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and trafficking in counterfeit pharmaceuticals, United States Attorney Don DeGabrielle announced today. Kevin Xu, 36, the owner and operator of Orient Pacific International, a corporation located in the Peoples Republic of China, is accused of using…
Read MoreDr 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 Observer, following a live sensitisation…
Read MoreThe 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 and Cotecxin drugs. By Mwaura…
Read MoreCounterfeit prescription drugs are a $35 billion-a-year business, and it's growing; by some estimates, 50 percent of prescription drugs in Africa, including those used to treat AIDS and malaria, are fake. Americans have long considered themselves immune, but a huge proportion of the prescription medications and devices used in the United States are now manufactured overseas, and the risks are…
Read MoreMUMBAI: Price control of drugs in India is making it difficult for companies to fight against spurious medicines as they are unable to set off the resultant increase in cost, Nicolas Piramal Director Swati Piramal said today. "The government does not provide for additional cost while fixing the prices for drugs," she said. Spurious drugs could be tackled with special…
Read MoreNEW DELHI: The pharma industry has come up with a solution to curb the menace of fake drugs being rampantly sold in the country. The industry has sought permission of chemicals ministry, the administrative ministry for drug pricing, to allow an increase of 3-4% on drug retail prices so that it can introduce tamper-proof packaging on those medicines. In a…
Read MorePhony copies of blood testing strips used by millions of diabetics in the U.S. came from China. The counterfeit test strips were sold last year under the brand names "One-Touch Ultra" and "One-Touch" basic. Johnson & Johnson's Life Scan makes the real products. The company says it discovered the bogus strips after customers called to complain, and launched a worldwide…
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