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The counterfeit drug scourge is gradually being wiped away in Nigeria

  • April 14, 2009

In a recent speech by researcher Dr. Roger Bate, Legatum Fellow in Global Prosperity at the American Enterprise Institute, the audience at the Harvard Medical School, got a glimpse of some of the rather positive developments in Africa.”NAFDAC has done a great job. As the authority in charge of combating fakes in Nigeria it has probably overseen a reduction in fakes in the past few years from maybe 40% to far less than 20%. (My own sampling using visual identification, TLC and disintegration, showed failure rates of 32% in 2007, 16% in 2009 and just now I think about 8-10%–but the counterfeiters may be coming more sophisticated and adding enough API to fool simple tests, such as assays with thin layer chromatography–but there is little doubt quality improvements have occurred across Nigeria thanks to NAFDAC).”

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