Counterfeit drugs kill 200,000 lives every year

According to WHO, every year, hundreds of thousands of people die from counterfeit drugs. The global network of counterfeit medicines is organized as drug delivery.

Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are no longer a problem of any country in the world and according to the statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO), each year there are hundreds of thousands of people dying because of counterfeit drugs.

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Vietnam News Agency correspondent in NewYork on February 21 quoted Dr Howard A. WHO Zucker said that one in five of the 1 million people die each year from using fake malaria drugs.

According to the " NewYork Times" , currently on the international pharmaceutical market, the most widely counterfeited drug is Artemisinin, which is particularly effective in treating malaria. Up to half of the anti-malarial drugs sold in Southeast Asian countries are "phony" drugs.

Techniques for making counterfeit drugs by criminal gangs are increasingly sophisticated. Counterfeit medicines are packaged, labeled and anti-counterfeit stamps as true. The ingredients of counterfeit medicines are usually rice flour, sometimes mixed with a few analgesics to reduce fever and deceive the patient.

More dangerous is that a "phony" anti-malarial drug only mixes a very small proportion of Artemisinin, creating a mechanism for resistance to drugs that makes it very difficult for patients to treat the definitive disease.

According to experts, the majority of counterfeit drugs are mass produced in some Asian countries and then released abroad under a network similar to the heroin distribution network, with a financial supply and washing system. money in Hong Kong.

The reason for the production and trading of counterfeit drugs has not been stopped because its scale is too large, while the penalties for this type of crime are not as strong as for drug crimes.