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By Carolyn Weaver1
Uganda
15 June 2006
 
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Stopping the sale of counterfeit2 and substandard drugs is a priority for many developing countries, including Uganda. Not only are low-quality and fake drugs harmful when they fail to cure, but they also are likely to lead to drug resistance, when microbes develop the ability to fight off medication. Ugandan health officials are working on several fronts to stem the flow of fake drugs into their country.

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Apollo Muhairwe, chief executive of Uganda's National Drug Authority 
  

Apollo Muhairwe is head of Uganda's National Drug Authority, or NDA.  He says Uganda imports 80 percent of its medicines, so the NDA works both inside and outside the country to ensure quality. "Through the official ports of entry, we have a presence there, at customs,” he said in an interview at his office in Kampala.


Technicians at the NDA's central laboratory test samples of imported drugs  
  
“And then before the people import the medicines, they seek authority from us. And not only must they import medicines from authorized3 places -- which we have gone there and inspected -- but also, in the case of A.R.V.'s [antiretrovirals] and TB's and anti-malarials, even though we have checked the factories and evaluated the dossiers of the manufacturers, when the medicines come to the ports of entry, they must be analyzed4 batch5 by batch in our quality-control laboratory."

 
A man fills a prescription6 at a drug store in Kampala 
  
If someone tries to import a substandard or fake drug lot, Muhairwe says, the NDA’s laboratories can detect it through its sample testing program. "We have not done a study on the extent of counterfeiting7, so I cannot tell you it is 10 percent or 90 percent, but from the quality assurance mechanism8 that we have put in place, and the results we are getting in the lab, we are confident that the medicines which are available to the population are safe, of good quality and efficacious. When we pick samples and bring them to the lab, the extent of the problem seems to be minimal9.


Uganda doesn't have enough licensed10 pharmacies11 to serve everyone   
  
Yet in a poor country like Uganda, there simply aren't enough licensed pharmacies to serve everyone, Muhairwe notes. And so poor and rural people "self-medicate," buying medicines where they can find them, and taking them as they choose. That's also a prescription for encouraging drug resistance -- a problem that experts say won’t be solved anytime soon.


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