Tropical Medicine & Surgery

Lang Siv

Publications

• Research Article
  Cambodian Ministry of Health Takes Decisive Actions in the Fight against Substandard and Counterfeit Medicines
  Author(s): Laura A Krech*, Christi Lane-Barlow, Siv Lang, Souly Phanouvong, Wei Elaine Yuan, Heng Bunkiet, Eav Dararath, Tey Sovannarith and Lukas Roth Laura A Krech*, Christi Lane-Barlow, Siv Lang, Souly Phanouvong, Wei Elaine Yuan, Heng Bunkiet, Eav Dararath, Tey Sovannarith and Lukas Roth
  
  Cambodia's Ministry of Health and the Department of Drugs and Food have been actively working to reduce the amount of poor quality medicines circulating in the pharmaceutical sector since fake mefloquine and artesunate were first found in 1998. From 2005-2012, legal private sector facilities and illegal outlets in twelve Cambodian provinces were targeted for routine surveillance of medicine quality through sample collection and testing of various anti-infective medicines, the majority of which were anti-malarials and anti-biotics. The Medicine Quality Monitoring program samples from the field were analyzed through a three level approach including field and advanced laboratory testing. 4,381 medicines were collected and tested from 2005-2012; 106 have failed quality testing resulting in an overall failure rate of 2.4%. 28 of the failed samples (26.4%) were counterfeit. The most commonl.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-9088.1000166

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