The World Bank (1994) noted that over 80% of the original budget on health in most African countries is lost through inefficient practices at various levels, by various accountability failures in the supply chain for medical supplies. There have been reports of thefts, with no counter claims of...
Download PDF ↓This prospective study carried out in the Casualty Unit of the Department of Surgery at the University Teaching Hospital is an effort to document the role of alcohol in road traffic accidents. It examines the presence of alcohol in blood samples of one hundred consenting road traffic accident...
Download PDF ↓The problem of counterfeiting of drugs presents an enormous public health challenge. No area of the world is unaffected, but mounting evidence shows that the problem is disproportionately severe in developing and emerging market countries, which also have a high burden of infectious diseases such...
Download PDF ↓The production of substandard and counterfeit drugs as a result of non-adherence to good manufacturing practices by pharmaceutical companies is a vast and underreported worldwide problem particularly affecting developing countries. Developing countries are not only markets for substandard and...
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