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NAFDAC: There is downward slide in the circulation of fake products in the country

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NAFDAC: There is downward slide in the circulation of fake products in the country

A man buys smuggled and/or counterfeit medicine 14 June 2007 on the Adjame market in Abidjan. Ivorian pharmacists are worried about the multiplication of fraudulent street medecine that are, according to them, threatening their trade and the health of patients. Fraudulent street medecine sales have risen by 15 to 25 percent in the last two years in Ivory Coast and represent a 53 million euro a year loss for the legal pharmaceutical sector, according to the chairman of the national order council, overseeing the trade, Parfait Kouassi. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO (Photo credit should read ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Yemi Adedeji, Abuja

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC),  has said that it id mopping up all fake medicines from the system.
The agency said there are scientific proofs that indicated that there is a downward trend in the circulation of fake and substandard pharmaceutical products in the country

 Abubakar Jimoh,  Director of  Special Duties in NAFDAC,  stated this in Abuja while responding to questions from journalists on the issue.

He described as reckless, misleading, displeasing and irresponsible the claim that 70 per cent of pharmaceutical products circulating in Nigeria are fake.

Jimoh noted that the assertion was a great disservice to Nigeria and that it tends to undermine the efforts NAFDAC and other agencies are making in the fight against counterfeit medicines in the country.

Jimoh recalled that in 2001, when  late Prof Akunyili,  former DG of NAFDAC came on board,  many people were giving different figures of the level of fake drugs in the country. Some were saying 60 % while others say 40%.

He stated: “We then approached the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2005 and we carried out what we called a joint baseline study on all category of drugs which was sponsored by the WHO in Nigeria.  The result of that national survey showed that the level of fake drugs in the country was in the neighbourhood of 16.7 per cent.

“In 2012,  NAFDAC then carried out a survey for all category of medicines using the Truscan nationwide and the outcome showed that the 16.7 per cent we got in 2005 has gone down to 6.4 per cent. We decided to do a survey to determine the circulation of fake Anti-Malaria medicines alone also in 2012 and we got 19.6 per cent.

“In 2014, another national survey on the circulation of fake Anti-Malaria by United States (US) Pharmacopeia was conducted and the result was 3.6 per cent.

“We are mopping up all fake medicines from the system. We have evidence both research- wise and scientifically speaking to show that there has been a downward slide in the circulation of fake and counterfeit products in the country,” Jimoh explained.

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