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by protocolture 360 days ago
Why should they not get access to drugs because the drugs would fail some bogus test made up by an american senator?
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More accurate to say they should get access to drugs that contain the actual molecules they are advertised to have across markets.

You shouldn't be able to sell what is basically sugar water in Somalia and call it cyclophosphamide. That's fraud if I do it as a private citizen.

In fact it's even fraud for me if I buy actual cyclophosphamide, and cut it with a bio compatible totally non reactive filler compound. How are these people getting away with it without the president and senators being on the take? When they'd run you or I down in less than a month for effectively the same act?

To be clear, I don't believe you or I should be able to do this. But I know what happens to private citizens who try to do things of this nature. So there is no question that this is a crime. The only question is why is it not prosecuted for larger corporations.

How do you know they would advertise it as unmodified cyclophosphamide (identical to the US product) in Somalia?
Do you remember what thread yours responding to?

Here I’ll remind you: nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in four African nations.

That’s the context. What on earth are you talking about?

Did you read tfa?

>roughly one in six — were found to have incorrect active ingredient levels

>But some drugs are also counterfeit, and that increases the risk of discrepancies between what's on the product label and the actual medicine within.

If I was desperate, and given a choice between either 1 of "Might have incorrect active ingredient levels" "Might be counterfeit" "Might have been stored improperly" or "No cancer drugs for you" I know which way I would be leaning.

"Defective" is doing a lot of work in this headline.

The point of the article was that counterfeit drugs are ineffective or killing people, bro.
Who is going to pay for the replacement drug?