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Study Finds Africans Get Substandard Malaria Drugs
May 14, 2008
The East African Community block is one of the regions most affected by the surge in fake malaria medicines that still remain on the prescription list of private pharmacies, a news study suggests.
The block includes Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi and Tanzania but the study released last week by US-based The Public Library of Science (PLoS) was done in four capitals except for Burundian Bujumbura.
However, the samples for the entire study were bought in six cities: Accra - Ghana; Dar-es-Salaam - Tanzania; Kampala - Uganda; Kigali - Rwanda; Lagos - Nigeria; and Nairobi - Kenya.
For full article, visit:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200805140315.html
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 14 May 2008
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