A recent chapter titled “The Current Situation of Medicines Quality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: New Challenges to be Addressed” (IntechOpen, 2025) sheds light on a growing global health concern: 10.5% of medicines worldwide are of poor quality, with the greatest impact seen in low- and middle-income countries. Harsh climates, weak regulatory systems, and fragmented supply ...
Important seizure of counterfeit medicines near Bangui, Central African Republic. Customs investigations seized two trucks on February 7th carrying falsified medicines, classified as poisons by the Health Ministry. Minister of Finance, Hervé Ndoba, visited the site immediately, emphasizing the need for proper disposal through incineration. Samples analyzed the same day in Bangui revealed the danger ...
World Health Organization (WHO)’s Science in 5 | Ep.110 Dive into the crucial topic of substandard medical products and falsified treatments. Learn how WHO safeguards your health. Pernette Bourdillon Esteve breaks it down in this eye-opening episode!
Interview between the FDA’s Office of Global Policy and Strategy’s Communications Team and Dr. Paul Huleatt on the Member State Mechanism and his work as the Chair of the Mechanism’s Steering Committee. On top of being the Chair of the Mechanism’s Steering Committee, Dr. Huleatt represents Australia and the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific ...
Falsified Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine identified in WHO region of the Eastern Mediterranean. The falsified product was reported at the patient level outside authorized and regulated supply chains and authorized vaccination programmes in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Falsified COVID-19 vaccines pose a serious risk to global public health and place an additional burden on vulnerable populations and ...
INVITATION TO AN ONLINE CONFERENCE:Technologies to Tackle Substandard and Falsified Medical Products in Global Health”WHEN: 9-11 Nov 2021 It is estimated that 10 to 30% of medical products in global circulation are either falsified or substandard. This event seeks to bring together innovators, researchers and anyone with an interest in medical products quality to explore ...
In 2019, an Iraqi Ministry of Health (MOH) report found that around 60-70% of medicines in the private sector do not enter the country through official processes (they are neither registered nor quality tested) – a problem that arose in Iraq after 2003, when the importation of medicines to the private sector became decentralised. Substandard and ...
A WHO alert on a falsified drug circulating in Africa, https://www.who.int/fr/news/item/10-03-2021-medical-product-alert-n-1-2021-falsified-vitamin-a
For our members and partners working in Zambia, please do be careful when purchasing locally. Zambia Watchdog reports that there are sub-standard products on the market (see link). The fall-out of this particular case may have contributed to the removal of the Minister of Health from his position.
Be-cause Health & QUAMED literature updates Ref IAP 2020. A Call to Action: Furthering the fight against falsified and substandard medical products Dear Friend, I hope you had a nice break, and that you start this new year with plenty or energies! The struggle against substandard and falsified medicines continue also in 2021, and I am ...
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