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The fight against fake drugs in Africa

By AWA | Posted on January 4, 2016

About 100,000 deaths a year in Africa are linked to the counterfeit drugs trade, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Sometimes counterfeit medicine kills directly, as in 2008 when 84 Nigerian babies given a teething mixture called ‘My Pikin’ were killed (the standard glycerin had been replaced with cheaper – and poisonous – diethylene...

Tags: anti-malarial drug, counterfeit medicine, Lonart DS, My Pikin, WHO

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