Substandard and Falsified Medicines: Proposed Methods for Case Finding and Sentinel Surveillance

• Main Authors: Elizabeth Pisani (Author), Amalia Hasnida (Author), Mawaddati Rahmi (Author), Maarten Olivier Kok (Author), Steven Harsono (Author), Yusi Anggriani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The World Health Organization and others warn that substandard and falsified medicines harm health and waste money, especially in low- and middle-income countries. However, no country has measured the market-wide extent of the problem, and no standardized methods exist to estimate the prevalence of...