Combatting substandard and falsified medicines: a view from Rwanda.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 23843747.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001476 and PMC identifier 3699445.
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Abstract
Agnes Binagwaho and colleagues describe Rwanda's experience of pharmacovigilance for malaria and tuberculosis, and call for a global treaty and leadership by the World Health Organization to address the global manufacture and trade in substandard and falsified medicines. <i>Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary</i>
Medical subject headings
- Commerce
- Counterfeit Drugs
- Drug Industry
- International Cooperation