Around one in 10 medical products in circulation in low- and
middle-income countries is substandard or counterfeit, according
to the World Health Organization (WHO), reports The Pharma
Letter’s Latin American correspondent.
The Institute of Research Against Counterfeit Medicines (IRACM)
found that Latin America appears in second place, surpassed only
by Asia, as the region that produces and markets the most
counterfeit medicines.
Some countries…
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