Falsified medicines in Africa: all talk, no action

Affiliations

• ¹ Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Laos; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK; Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Laos; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK; Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
• ³ School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ⁴ School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA; Laboratorio de Desarrollo Analítico y Quimiometría, Cátedra de Química Analítica I, Facultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe, Argentina; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ⁵ School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA; Centro de Investigaciones en Bionanociencias, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Godoy Cruz, Argentina.
• ⁶ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ⁷ GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
• ⁸ Global Pharma Health Fund, Frankfurt, Germany.
• ⁹ Inspecção Geral de Saúde, Luanda, Angola.
• ¹⁰ Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK; Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK; Mahidol Oxford Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.