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Interpol Joins The Battle Against Fake Medicines in Africa
Counterfeit medicine networks take advantage of Africa's poor or non-existent drug regulatory systems to dump drugs with little or no active ingredient in the continent, experts say.
Interpol carried out its first-ever operation solely dedicated to the trade in fake medicine in 2005 in seven southeast Asian countries.
"We are concerned about counterfeit medicines for life-threatening diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS and increasingly getting involved in this area," said Newton.
The US-based Center for Medicines in the Public Interest estimates that global counterfeit drug sales will rise to 75 billion dollars by 2010, a 90 percent increase over 2005.
Source-AFP
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