{"id":4235,"date":"2019-07-31T10:19:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T07:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"why-proposed-african-medicines-regulatory-agency-is-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/31\/why-proposed-african-medicines-regulatory-agency-is-a-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Proposed African Medicines Regulatory Agency Is A Big Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Julius Bizimungu<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The WHO reports that 1 out of\nevery 10 medicines in Africa is substandard or falsified.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These poor-quality products\nresult in significant deaths annually.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A review of available several\nreports seem to suggest that lack of regulation and quality assurance has\nallowed a flourishing market of substandard, spurious, falsely-labelled,\nfalsified and counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products to emerge in parts of the\ndeveloping world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to WHO, SSFFC\nmedical products are by their nature difficult to detect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are often designed to\nappear identical to the genuine product and may not cause an obvious adverse\nreaction, however they will fail to treat the disease or condition for which\nthey were intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is generally scarce\ninformation on the extent of quality and safety of medical products in African\ncountries due to inadequate regulatory systems\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/news\/why-proposed-african-medicines-regulatory-agency-big-deal\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julius Bizimungu The WHO reports that 1 out of every 10 medicines in Africa is substandard or falsified.&nbsp; These poor-quality products result in significant deaths annually.&nbsp; A review of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}