To clarify, this statement does not include all medicines throughout Asia; rather, it refers to the anti-infective medicines collected in the participating countries, particularly antibiotics and antimalarials.
To account for medicines collected elsewhere, patients will be asked during their interviews to recall any quantities of medicines obtained elsewhere for the specified period.
cVan Dongen's analysis focused on the medicine prices of seven of the 14 medicines collected globally in WHO/HAI surveys.
In April 2011, in collaboration with authorities in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia, the Promoting the Quality of Medicines programme launched the Medicines Quality Database 143, which reports on the quality of a variety of medicines collected in these regions.
Half of the medicines collected (50%) were labeled in Lao language, 9.5% samples were labeled in Thai, and 6.9% samples were labeled in Vietnamese (all the artesunate samples) with 1.9% in French.
Results also found that over 30% of the medicines collected did not fall in the 85 115% range of the stated API and that there were no falsified antimalarials; most of these failures (58, 19.9%) were in the 75 84% unacceptably low range.
A global and regional analysis was performed on all medicines collected and tested from 2003 to 2012, using the data that are publicly available in MQDB with the addition of unpublished information detailing reasons for failure, and additional data from 2013, which has not yet been publically released.
Medicine is collected monthly; children failing to collect medicine at scheduled visits are considered to have defaulted treatment and attempts are made to trace the patient by phone or home visit by a nurse tracker.
Wildlife products are used in the fashion industry, in the art world, for alternative medicine and collected for pure vanity and in the most perverse ways.
Prices of generic equivalent products with the lowest unit price available at the facility and price of the innovator product of particular medicine were collected.
