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Combatting Substandard and Falsified Medicines: A View from Rwanda

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2013

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Binagwaho, A., R. Bate, M. Gasana, C. Karema, Y. Mucyo, J. P. Mwesigye, F. Biziyaremye, et al. 2013. “Combatting Substandard and Falsified Medicines: A View from Rwanda.” PLoS Medicine 10 (7): e1001476. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001476.

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Agnes Binagwaho and colleagues describe Rwanda's experience of pharmacovigilance for malaria and tuberculosis, and call for a global treaty and leadership by the World Health Organization to address the global manufacture and trade in substandard and falsified medicines. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

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Medicine, Drugs and Devices, Drug Research and Development, Drug Licensing and Regulation, Pharmacoepidemiology, Global Health, Infectious Diseases, Parasitic Diseases, Malaria, Plasmodium Falciparum, Tropical Diseases (Non-Neglected), Tuberculosis, Infectious Disease Control, Public Health, Drug Policy

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