Alarm as 20% of Medicines in Africa Found to Be Substandard or Fake

Aug 4, 2024: A major research project has raised alarm over the prevalence of substandard or fake medicines in Africa, suggesting that this issue could be contributing to the deaths of countless patients. Researchers from Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia reviewed 27 studies, analyzing 7,508 medicine samples. They found that 1,639 of these samples failed […]