As the most populous country in Africa, that's to be expected.

Expected.

Ha!


lol, seun come on, na. Stop finding excuses.

THE GOOD DAYS ARE HERE, BUT THE BEST IS YET TO COME FOR NIGERIA.

NO thanks to the PEOPLE who brought us 'MY PIKIN' teething medicine..

Fake Drugs again! mom booobs sef nor pure b dat!

mukina2:

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/news/172102--nigeria-largest-market-for-fake-drugs--nafdac

Mukina jst get dz breaking on frontpage. Aruma oteh has bn recalled by fed gov't. Try confirm,sha.

Abeg! It is waay too early in the day for this kinda Emotional Roller coaster

Read Nigeria, Largest Market went (Yipeeeee )then saw [b]For Fake Drugs [/b]and it was (Awwwww )

Sisi_Kill: Abeg! It is waay too early in the day for this kinda Emotional Roller coaster

Read Nigeria, Largest Market went (Yipeeeee )then saw [b]For Fake Drugs [/b]and it was (Awwwww )

lol what were u expecting b4 (that naija has largest beer industry? ).. Nigeria always have largest in bad thing buh smallest in good thing... Thanks to d media houses that always like to paste negative news about naija...

Thanks 2 ibo pple

amosy007:
lol what were u expecting b4 (that naija has largest beer industry? ).. Nigeria always have largest in bad thing buh smallest in good thing... Thanks to d media houses that always like to paste negative news about naija...

I dunno. . .but one can hope can't they?

So tired of seeing Nigeria on the MOST WORSTEST LIST for everything under the sun.

Sisi_Kill:

I dunno. . .but one can hope can't they?

So tired of seeing Nigeria on the MOST WORSTEST LIST for everything under the sun.

yes we got to keep hopin noni..

Just funy sha .. U wnt see media houses post sumting like

"naija has d highest growing number of profesors or highest number of educationist"

buh all u'll see them writes are.

Naija highest number of polio, highest number of malaria (like say na only us get mosquitoes) highest number of people that shit for bush, highest number of people that snatch boyfriend/girlfriend.. Ridiculous things..

Now we have largest market 4 fake drugs .. What abt india that manufacture those drugs. If there is no market there will dey still be making those drugs?

How many countries has NAFDAC visited in west Africa alone, not to talk of the other African countries? every time we like to paint our country bad just to attract applause, Nonsense!!

@ifeharam, it may seems funny to you but people take it personal especially those u target. I would advice u to desist from it.

ifihearam: Thanks 2 ibo pple

That's why you should keep burning abi no petrol to burn again?

Surprise no catch me oh . . I just pity d poor ones dat cant afford 2 buy drugs at d pharmacy instead dey go 2 our so called 'chemisti'

[size=13pt]Fake drugs Produced in INDIA and CHINA kill over 700,000 people every year - new report[/size]

IPN 
Press release

A new IPN study reveals the shocking burden of fake medicines in less developed countries.

Fake tuberculosis and malaria drugs alone are estimated to kill 700,000 people a year. That’s equivalent to four fully laden jumbo jets crashing every day.

The report lays bare the ballooning problem of counterfeit and substandard drugs, which can constitute one third of the drug supply in certain African countries. These dodgy drugs result in unnecessary death and increased levels of drug resistance.

The report highlights more shocking evidence, such as:
• Nearly half the drugs sold in Angola, Burundi, and the Congo are substandard
• About two thirds of artesunate (anti-malaria) drugs in Laos, Myanmar Cambodia and Vietnam contain insufficient active ingredient
• Most fake drugs originate from China and India

Current attempts to deal with the problem through tougher regulation and criminal penalties do not address the root causes of counterfeiting. Worse, many countries have corrupt regulatory and legal systems that are easily exploited by criminal counterfeiters, so additional rules will only increase corruption.

Governments also exacerbate the problem by making legitimate drugs more expensive through taxes and tariffs.

The report stresses that what is needed are effective mechanisms to enable purchasers of drugs to be assured that what they are buying is the real thing. Identity preservation systems using unique codes verifiable through a simple text message are one possible solution. More effective trademark systems would also help.

Report author Julian Harris said: “Many poor countries have weak or nonexistent trademark laws, so it’s no surprise that counterfeits are rife. A free press, free courts, and free trade would actually increase the quality of medicines.”

Ends

Link: www.policynetwork.net/health/publication/keeping-it-real-protecting-worlds-poor-fake-drugs

Contacts
• For more information contact Julian Harris, +44 20 3393 8415 or jharris //at// policynetwork.net

Notes on statistics:

Malaria:

The WHO has previously estimated that 200,000 deaths per annum would be preventable if drugs used were not fakes. They calculated this from statistics in two papers: the Africa Malaria Study 2003, and The Quality of Antimalarials - A Study in Selected African Countries. The calculations assumed that there were 1 million annual deaths from malaria, with only half of these victims being diagnosed and receiving any treatment at all. Of these, a fifth were estimated to have been resistant to chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, leaving 400,000 lives capable of being saved through treatment (given existing levels of coverage). The study asserted that, according to the research in The Quality of Antimalarials - A Study in Selected African Countries, up to half of antimalarial drugs in some areas were substandard, and therefore up to half the 400,000 preventable deaths were due to substandard products.

This figure may be conservative. Since then artemisinin use has become far more widespread, meaning that the 100,000 deaths removed from the equation now arguably should not be. This, by their methodology, would increase their figure to 250,000 deaths. Furthermore neither their figures (nor our tuberculosis figures below) account for fake drugs causing resistance. In parts of Asia fake antimalarials account for as much as 68% of the market, and drug resistant malaria is growing as a consequence. Fakes are at the very least partially culpable for deaths from drug resistant disease.

Tuberculosis:

According to the World Health Organization, there were 9.3m new cases (in 2007).
Coverage of DOTS (Directly observed treatment, short course) is said to be 94% worldwide, with half of untreated sufferers expected to die.

Data on levels of fake TB drugs is scarce, yet one reliable study (Laserson, 2001) across six countries found the level to be 10%.

This leaves approximately 900, 000 people suffering from TB and receiving treatment with fake drugs. The chances of dying from TB if not treated correctly are 50%, so we can assume this situation could lead to approximately 450,000 deaths.

Malaria and TB deaths caused by fakes, combined, therefore equals at least 450,000 + 250,000 = 700,000.

NAFDAC SHAME ON YOURSELF, THAT REALLY SHOWS HOW INCOMPETENT YOU ARE, YOU CAN'T CONTROL IT

and what have you people(nafdac),done about it?

Seun: As the most populous country in Africa, that's to be expected.

Now u ve redeemed urself, that NDLEA guy no get common sense

ifihearam: Thanks 2 ibo pple

Eediota

"This is a very, very serious criminal act," Nicholas White, a malaria expert at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, says of the counterfeiting from India and China. "You're killing people. It's premeditated, coldblooded murder. And yet we don't think of it like that."


Southeast Asia is awash in counterfeit medications, none more insidious than those for malaria, a deadly infectious disease that is usually curable if treated early with appropriate drugs. Pharmacies throughout the region are stocked with the fake malaria medicine, which is generally cheaper than the real thing.


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/Prescription-for-Murder.html

Fhemmmy: In a nation where no one wanna pay the true value for anything . . . I am not surprised

Hail Naija& Nigerians
Long on desire
Short on value

no be person for NL here dey talk say naija na the fastest growing economy? make una dey see topic for growing economy.
Ara gbakwa ndi ara.

Nigeria My Country, Always The Worst In Every Thin, Wot Do U Think,After All We Are The Giant Of Africa.

''NIGERIA''= (good people, great Nation)