Global Efforts Intensify In Fight Against Counterfeit Drugs
Executive Summary
Regulators and manufacturers worldwide intensify cracking down on the scourge of counterfeit drugs, with APEC launching a toolkit, industry recruiting participants for a shared audit program and WHO warning that the problem is not going away anytime soon. While anti-malarials and -infectives and vaccines continue as prime targets, a new trend is emerging in “well-regulated’ markets of high-priced hepatitis drugs falsified.