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Growing Threat of Substandard and Counterfeit Medicines in Developing Countries Addressed by New USAID-USP Cooperative Agreement

Date:10/26/2009

uilding on a multi-year USAID-USP partnership in this arena that assists health officials and others in 28 countries around the world, the program will increase work to address the significant public health challenge posed by substandard and counterfeit medicines. According to the U.S.-based Center for Medicines in the Public Interest, counterfeit drug sales alone will reach $75 billion globally in 2010, an increase of more than 90 percent from 2005. Various factors contribute to the growth of substandard and counterfeit medicines, including the globalization of trade and weak regulatory capacity in developing countries.

"Substandard and counterfeit medicines represent a threat to public health worldwide but pose a particular problem in developing countries, where lack of financial, technical and other resources make it difficult to protect the drug supply chains," said Gloria Steele, USAID acting assistant administrator for global health. "Such medicines have the potential to undermine decades of investments in public health. Without good quality, safe medicines to treat diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, the impact of other health initiatives may be weakened. The PQM Program focuses on this critical aspect of combating these diseases."

"The lives of patients are put in serious jeopardy when they take substandard or counterfeit drugs," said Roger L. Williams, M.D., chief executive officer of USP. "Such 'medicines' have health as well as economic implications. Moreover, substandard medicines contribute to the development of drug-resistant strains of infectious diseases. Such strains are a leading challenge in the fight against malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis."

The program will help ensure the quality, safety and efficacy of medicines by: working with countries to strengthen their medicines regulatory bodies, which are responsible for protecting the supply chains; increasing the s
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