Falsified medicines in Africa: all talk, no action

PAUL N. NEWTON; PATRICIA TABERNERO; PRABHA DWIVEDI; MARÍA J. CULZONI; MARÍA EUGENIA MONGE; ISABEL SWAMIDOSS; DALLAS MILDENHALL; MICHAEL D GREEN; RICHARD JÄHNKE ; MIGUEL DOS SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA ; JULIA SIMAO; NICHOLAS J WHITE; FACUNDO M. FERNÁNDEZ

The Lancet Global Health

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC

Año: 2014 vol. 2 p. 509 - 510

Poor-quality medicines and medical products, both substandard and falsified, cause avoidable morbidity, mortality, drug resistance, and loss of faith in health systems, especially in low-income and middle-income countries.1?3 We report the analysis of two falsifi ed medicines from Angola and discuss what lessons such a discovery could hold.