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New study alerts to the risk of poor quality medicines used to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease

There are important but neglected issues with substandard and falsified medicines and medical products used to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases. From limited available data, MORU and IDDO scientists found about one fifth of medicines reported as sampled in the literature were substandard or falsified. This systematic review suggests that more and better quality data and data sharing are needed to better understand the global burden of this problem and inform interventions.

Health worker sorting prescriptions on shelves © Rumi Consultancy, World Bank

Read the publication 'The quality of medical products for cardiovascular diseases: a gap in global cardiac care' on the BMJ Global Health website.

The full story is available on the IDDO website

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