Objectives To analyse and present the literature describing the health consequences of
falsified medicines, focusing on mortality and morbidity, as well as the scale of the issue, the …

Simultaneous expansion of the Internet and increased globalisation of the pharmaceutical
industry have meant medication can be accessed transnationally from both legal and illicit …

Falsified and substandard medicines may undermine the progress toward the Sustainable
Development Goals. The present study investigated the quality of 13 essential medicines in …

Substandard/counterfeit drugs are a growing global problem. According to the World Health
Organisation, counterfeit medicines are medicines that are mislabelled deliberately and …

) represent a significant and growing threat to human health. Substandard medical products
result from errors, corruption, negligence, or poor practice in manufacturing, procurement …

Access to safe, effective and affordable medicines of good quality is included into the
Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Furthermore, WHO has developed a …

Supply chain management, often known as SCM, refers to the extensive variety of
operations that are required to plan, monitor, and coordinate the movement of a product from …

Poor-quality medicines are a threat to public health in many low-and middle-income
countries, and prospective surveys are needed to inform corrective actions. Therefore, we …

ABSTRACT Background: Substandard, falsified, unlicensed, and unregistered medicines
pose significant risks to public health in developed and developing countries. This …

Background Outbreaks of unknown aetiology in complex settings pose challenges and there
is little information about investigation methods. We reviewed investigations into such …