The confirmed presence of substandard or falsified anticancer medicines in sub-Saharan Africa will complicate cancer care.
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African countries are too dependent on importation of active pharmaceutical ingredients.
The usefulness of a drug is typically measured by its active ingredient. But traditional Chinese medicine shows that there’s more to healing than using the right chemical.
Drug shortages occur regularly in the US, even in the best of times. The pharmaceutical supply chain embodies ‘just in time’ shipping and has little built-in redundancy.
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