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The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on Monday, April 20, released a special supplement that includes 17 articles on falsified and substandard medicines. This special issue, titled, “The Global Pandemic of Falsified Medicines: Laboratory and Field Innovations and Policy Perspectives,” covers a range of findings on the state of substandard medicines around the world.
Most of the articles address the issue of poor quality malaria drugs and were the focus of a discussion held at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. The supplement and the event come a few days before World Malaria Day, which is marked each year on April 25.
"These important scientific papers have been released just ahead of World Malaria Day, a time for everyone to pause and take stock of efforts to combat this global killer," said ASTMH President Chris Plowe, MD, MPH, FASTMH. "The findings on substandard drugs are an especially sharp reminder of how much we still have to do. We've come a long way in reducing malaria deaths in many countries. But if we lose momentum, those gains will be reversed--it has happened before. We need to be relentless."
A full list of articles along with press and explanatory materials is listed below.
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