“A study conducted by NAFDAC in collaboration with World Health Organisation (WHO) and DFID showed a remarkable decrease in circulation of counterfeit medicines from 40% in 2001 to 16.7%,” he said.
Source: Medical World Nigeria
A recent survey conducted by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians against abusing anti-malarial drugs.Director -General of the agency, Paul Orhii stated this yesterday in Abuja during the public presentation of the results of the survey titled: ‘Survey on the quality of antimalarial medicines in Nigeria 2014.’ While stating that malaria remains a huge health threat to countries in sub-saharan Africa including Nigeria, abuse of antimalarial drugs makes one develop resistant strains of malaria that maybe difficult to treat even with the right medicines.
The survey was funded by USAID through Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) programme of the United States Pharmacopoeia Convention.The survey shows that the substandard anti-malarial drugs in circulation have now decreased to 3.6 percent. He said studies conducted by NAFDAC from 2001 to 2014 showed that there has been a positive trend, and progressive decrease in the incidence of counterfeit medicines in Nigeria.
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