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Other Human Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
The trade in fake malaria, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis drugs is again in the spotlight, amid fears that they are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in poor countries.
The “pandemic of falsified and substandard medicines is pervasive and underestimated, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where drug and regulatory systems are weak or non-existent,” according to Jim Herrington of the University of North Carolina who co-edited a collection of articles published in