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New alliance seeks to fight ‘plague’ of fake medicines The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a surge in fake medical products released in markets across the world. Copyright: Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay. This image has been cropped. Speed read COVID-19 has resulted in a surge in falsified medical products Collaboration and transparent reporting needed to tackle scourge, experts say Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s free under our creative commons attribution license, but please follow some simple guidelines: You have to credit our authors. You have to credit SciDev.Net where possible include our logo with a link back to the original article. ....
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New alliance seeks to tackle the plague of falsified medical products COVID-19 has spawned a stark rise in the global circulation of fake medical products relating to the pandemic, experts warn as they launch an alliance aimed at tackling the scourge. The Fight the Fakes (FTF) Alliance, a non-profit association comprising 16 organizations from manufacturers to wholesalers, and research and patient groups, aims to raise the profile of an issue it views as long under-addressed globally, with a disproportionate impact on low- and middle-income countries. One in 10 medical products in developing countries is either substandard or falsified, according to World Health Organization (WHO) figures from 2017. And some research suggests the prevalence of fake medicines can be as high as 70 per cent in some African countries. ....