POOR QUALITY DRUGS POSE URGENT RISK

POOR QUALITY DRUGS POSE URGENT RISK

Poor quality medicines are a real and urgent threat that could undermine decades of successful efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, according to the editors of a collection of journal articles published on April 20, 2015. Scientists report up to 41 percent of specimens failed to meet quality standards in global studies of about 17,000 drug samples. Substandard malaria drugs caused an estimated 122,350 deaths in African children in 2013. However, new technologies to detect problem drugs show promise, according to the editors of a collection of journal articles, "The Global Pandemic of Falsified Medicines: Laboratory and Field Innovations and Policy Perspectives," published by The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Click to continue