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Impact of poor-quality medicines in the 'developing' world

Abstract:
Since our ancestors began trading several millennia ago, counterfeit and substandard medicines have been a recurring problem, with history punctuated by crises in the supply of anti-microbials, such as fake cinchona bark in the 1600s and fake quinine in the 1800s. Unfortunately this problem persists, in particular afflicting unsuspecting patients in 'developing' countries. Poor-quality drugs are a vital (but neglected) public health problem. They contribute to a 'crevasse' between the enormous effort in therapeutic research and policy decisions and implementation of good-quality medicines.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1016/j.tips.2009.11.005

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Institution:
"Wellcome Trsut-Mahosot Hospital-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR", "University of Oxford"
Department:
Medical Sciences Division - Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine,Centre for (CCVTM)
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Institution:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Department:
Division of Parasitic Diseases
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Department:
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Publisher:
Elsevier
Journal:
Trends in Pharmacological Sciences More from this journal
Volume:
31
Issue:
3
Pages:
99-101
Publication date:
2010-03-01
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ISSN:
0165-6147

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English
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ora:3804
Deposit date:
2010-05-21

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