drugs

Combine an anti-malarial drug with the Mosquirix vaccine to reduce malaria incidence and mortality in young African children by almost 75%. This is the surprising conclusion of a study published in the English scientific journal The New England Journal of Medicine, published after an experiment that took place over three years.…

Final week, the customs authorities introduced that they'd seized a number of tonnes of unauthorized medicine, value greater than 1.5 billion CFA francs (nearly 2.3 million euros). A file seizure close to the border with Gambia. A number of operations of the identical sort have been carried out in current months. The Affiliation of Pharmacists in Senegal condemns a "lack of political will" to fight…

Trafficking in counterfeit medicines in Africa has increased, especially since the 1980s. On 17 and 18 February 2020, the Lomé Declaration obliged seven countries on the continent to impose criminal sanctions to criminalize trafficking in human beings for substandard and counterfeit medicines. Last week, this topic was at the center of an online debate, initiated by the associations Les Afriques vous…