Combating Substandard and Falsified Medicines: A View from Rwanda
PLOS Medicine, Vol. 10, Issue No. 7, July 2013
3 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2013
Date Written: July 2013
Abstract
In the last year, several institutions — the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and the United States Institute of Medicine — have turned their attention, with varying degrees of effectiveness, to the problem of dangerously poor quality medicines. While substandard medicines are found everywhere in the world, it is the poorest countries with the weakest capacity for drug regulation and quality control that suffer the most.
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Binagwaho, Agnes and Bate, Roger and Gasana, Michel and Karema, Corine and Mucyo, Yves and Mwesigye, John Patrick and Biziyaremye, Floribert and Nutt, Cameron and Wagner, Claire M. and Jensen, Paul and Attaran, Amir and Attaran, Amir, Combating Substandard and Falsified Medicines: A View from Rwanda (July 2013). PLOS Medicine, Vol. 10, Issue No. 7, July 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2298185
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