According to the report, falsified malaria drugs are responsible for death of over 150,000 children yearly and 10 per cent of all medicines worth over $200 billion (N72 trillion) that sold in developing countries including Nigeria are substandard.
Another new study published in the JAMA Network Open journal found that close to 19 per cent of all medicines in sub-Saharan Africa are either fake or substandard.The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene research noted that the deaths of children are a cause for misery and one of the gravest perils comes in the form of falsified and substandard drugs for treating malaria, pneumonia and other diseases.
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