Screening for substandard and falsified medicines in Nigeria using visual inspection and GPHF-Minilab analysis: lessons learnt for future training of health workers and pharmacy personnel
Micha Lächele, Julia Gabel, Nkiru Sunny-Abarikwu, Rita Ezinwanne Ohazulike, Juliet Ngene, Jane Frances Chioke, Lutz Heide · 2024
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Micha Lächele and six co-authors test how well cheap screening catches fake and substandard medicines in Nigeria. The stakes are high across poorer countries, where bad medicines slip into supply chains. Two hundred sixty samples, already graded by a strict pharmacopeia method, were rechecked by eye and with a portable mini-lab by local staff. Every one of the four fake products was caught by sight alone, betrayed by spelling errors on labels and maker names that could not be verified online.
The mini-lab's chemistry caught only about a third of the samples that the strict method found badly off-dose. A phone app that reads the test plates raised the catch to about sixty-two percent but wrongly failed too many good samples. Extra staff training improved both readings. The authors share the photos and plates as training material for other front-line teams.
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| CREATOR | Micha Lächele, Julia Gabel, Nkiru Sunny-Abarikwu, Rita Ezinwanne Ohazulike, Juliet Ngene, Jane Frances Chioke, Lutz Heide |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |