WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the Regional CommitteeMr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the committee highlighted: Fighting Substandard and Falsified Medicines in AfricaExcerpts from his speech:
#The magnitude of this problem, and its damage to both lives and to economies, is immense. #WHO estimates that more than one in ten medicines in low- and middle-income countries is either substandard or falsified, estimate that substandard or falsified antibiotics to treat pneumonia in children under five-years-old result in anywhere from 72,000 to 169,00 […]