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Health agency reveals scourge of fake drugs in developing world

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WHO data suggest around 10% of medications in poorer countries are fraudulent or substandard.

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  1. WHO. WHO Global Surveillance and Monitoring System for substandard and falsified medical products (2017); available at http://bit.ly/2zpxoeu

  2. WHO. A study on the public health and socioeconomic impact of substandard and falsified medical products (2017); available at http://bit.ly/2Ak1mjv

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Casassus, B. Health agency reveals scourge of fake drugs in developing world. Nature (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.23051

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