Amid incidents of toxic cough syrups, the organization has called on countries and regulators to strengthen action against the threat of substandard and falsified medical products.
Although control measures are applied, falsified medicines are present in the supply chain in Niger, with solutions requiring cross-country collaboration, says the country’s Ministry of Health.
As African countries look to secure their supply chains, head of the WHO’s team on fighting falsified and substandard medicine speaks about how to ‘demand quality’.