| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| Anti-infective medicine quality: Analysis of basic product quality by approval status and country of manufacture | |
| Roger Bate; Lorraine Mooney; Amir Attaran; Kimberly Hess; Julissa Milligan | |
| 发表日期 | 2012-07-16 |
| 出版年 | 2012 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Background: Some medicines for sale in developing countries are approved by a stringent regulatory authority (SRA) or the World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification program; many of these are global brands. This study ascertains whether medicines approved by SRAs or the WHO perform better in simple quality tests than those that have not been approved by either. Methods: Over the past 4 years, 2,652 essential drugs (products to treat malaria, tuberculosis, and bacterial infections) were procured by covert shoppers from eleven African cities and eight cities in a variety of mid-income nations. All samples were assessed using the Global Pharma Health Fund eV Minilab® protocol to identify whether they were substandard, degraded or counterfeit. Results: The failure rate among SRA-approved products was 1.01%, among WHO-approved products was 6.80%, and 13.01% among products that were not approved by either. African cities had a greater proportion of SRA- or WHO-approved products (31.50%) than Indian cities (26.57%), but they also experienced a higher failure rate (14.21%) than Indian cities (7.83%). The remainder of cities tested had both the highest proportion of approved products at 34.46% and the lowest failure rate at 2.70%. Products made in Africa had the highest failure rate at 25.77%, followed by Chinese products at 15.74%, Indian products at 3.70%, and European/US products, which failed least often, at 1.70%. Most worrying is that 17.65% of Chinese products approved by the WHO failed. Conclusion: The results strongly indicate that approval by either an SRA or the WHO is correlated with higher medicine quality at a statistically significant level. The comparatively high failure rates among WHO-approved products suggest there may be some weakness in post-marketing surveillance of these products, especially of Chinese-made WHO-approved products. The discrepancy between the failure rate of WHO-approved products from India (2.39%) and China (17.65%) is cause for concern. It is possible that more of the failures originating in China are counterfeit products, but this cannot be ascertained without greater help from the manufacturers themselves. The full paper is available via dovepress.com. |
| 主题 | Health Care |
| 标签 | drug safety ; emerging market economies ; Global health ; Pharmaceuticals ; World Health Organization (WHO) |
| URL | https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/anti-infective-medicine-quality-analysis-of-basic-product-quality-by-approval-status-and-country-of-manufacture/ |
| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/207186 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Roger Bate,Lorraine Mooney,Amir Attaran,et al. Anti-infective medicine quality: Analysis of basic product quality by approval status and country of manufacture. 2012. |
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