Voice of America: Global Trade in Fake Drugs Tops $30 Billion Oct 5th 2012, 00:15 Voice of America | Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries | | Global Trade in Fake Drugs Tops $30 Billion Oct 4th 2012, 22:40 The World Health Organization estimates that 25 percent of medicines sold in poor countries are counterfeit. Monitoring by the World Bank and others suggests the overall global trade in fake and substandard drugs is now more than $30 billion per year. Experts are asking for stricter regulation and better international collaboration to check this public health menace. Some 40 percent of the drugs available in many sub-Saharan African and South American countries are either fake or ... | | | | |
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