Fake, Low-Grade Drugs Hinder Drive Against Disease, Weaken Trust: Researchers

Fake and low-quality drugs hinder efforts to tackle disease, weaken public trust in national health systems and raise questions over governance, drug researchers said on Thursday.

The proliferation of drugs which fail to work properly creates a “spiral of distrust” that undermines the legitimacy of public health systems, especially when criminals evade detection, they said in a report in the Lancet medical journal.

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