Having been a victim of malaria only a few days before my travel to Germany, there was no way a particular article in the June edition of Emirates airline's in-flight magazine was going to escape my attention.
The article was titled Deadly Fakes. It was about an emerging ‘epidemic of counterfeits’ of life-saving drugs in Asia, which is now spreading to the developing world.
The article spoke of bogus antibiotics, tuberculosis drugs, AIDS drugs and meningitis vaccines. I wondered whether I might be one of the latest victims of this phenomenon given that the first course of treatment I got for my malaria failed to work.
All this spells doom for Africa where most of the aforementioned drugs are needed more than ever before. With more ARVs, TB drugs and anti-malarials on the increase in Africa – where most national drug authorities lack the technology to identify fakes – the statistics of fatalities caused by counterfeit drugs are bound to skyrocket.
Hi,Bro, this is a wonderful art you have displayed. Ipray that God continues to add you more wisedom to be able to save His Nation. It's people like you that this world needs,a people that can analyse situations and be able to alert others for better plans to encounter their demises.Please continue with the strugle for Africa's bigest enemy is health related problems..more so Malaria and HIV/Aids although these have been accelerated by ignorance.
cheers
enjoy your trip Bro.
Malinga Joseph/Uganda
Posted by: Joseph Malinga | 07 June 2007 at 10:23
oh my god.
Posted by: 络龙医搜 | 15 February 2008 at 06:59
hmm..nice post thanks
Posted by: drugs link | 30 June 2008 at 23:59
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Posted by: drugs information | 01 July 2008 at 00:01
Merci beaucoup pour votre article.
Posted by: Paul Smith | 20 December 2011 at 08:52