Monitoring the quality of medicines: results from Africa, Asia, and South America.
In: The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, Jg. 92 (2015-06-01), Heft 6 Suppl, S. 68
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Monitoring the quality of medicines plays a crucial role in an integrated medicines quality assurance system. In a publicly available medicines quality database (MQDB), the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) reports results of data collected from medicines quality monitoring (MQM) activities spanning the period of 2003-2013 in 17 countries of Africa, Asia, and South America. The MQDB contains information on 15,063 samples collected and tested using Minilab® screening methods and/or pharmacopeial methods. Approximately 71% of the samples reported came from Asia, 23% from Africa, and 6% from South America. The samples collected and tested include mainly antibiotic, antimalarial, and antituberculosis medicines. A total of 848 samples, representing 5.6% of total samples, failed the quality test. The failure proportion per region was 11.5%, 10.4%, and 2.9% for South America, Africa, and Asia, respectively. Eighty-one counterfeit medicines were reported, 86.4% of which were found in Asia and 13.6% in Africa. Additional analysis of the data shows the distribution of poor-quality medicines per region and by therapeutic indication as well as possible trends of counterfeit medicines.
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Monitoring the quality of medicines: results from Africa, Asia, and South America.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hajjou, M ; Krech, L ; Lane-Barlow, C ; Roth, L ; Pribluda, VS ; Phanouvong, S ; El-Hadri, L ; Evans, L ; Raymond, C ; Yuan, E ; Siv, L ; Vuong, TA ; Boateng, KP ; Okafor, R ; Chibwe, KM ; Lukulay, PH |
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Zeitschrift: | The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, Jg. 92 (2015-06-01), Heft 6 Suppl, S. 68 |
Veröffentlichung: | Northbrook, IL : American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene ; <i>Original Publication</i>: Baltimore., 2015 |
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ISSN: | 1476-1645 (electronic) |
DOI: | 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0535 |
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