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Posted AT 12:19 AM EDT on 16/05/08

Poor medicine for poor people

Special to Globe and Mail Update

New field research shows that a third of anti-malaria drugs collected in six African cities fail at least one quality test, and aid agencies continue to fund untested, substandard drugs. The World Health Organization suggests that one-fifth of the approximately one million children who die every year from malaria die because of substandard and poorly prescribed medicines. This is poor medicine for poor people.

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