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Study: Fake malaria drugs common in Asia, Africa

22.05.2012 15:29   0 views  0 comments
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FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2009 file photo, a merchant speaks with a woman holding her sick child at a pharmacy in Pailin, Cambodia. More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to combat the disease, a study said Tuesday, May 22, 2012. (AP Photo/David Longstreath, File)More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to fight the disease, a study said Tuesday.


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South Africa protesters deface Zuma penis portrait

22.05.2012 13:38   0 views  0 comments
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two men vandalized a portrait of South African President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed on Tuesday, intensifying a heated debate about the picture that has enraged the ruling African National Congress. Television footage showed a white middle-aged man in a suit walking up to the portrait at a Johannesburg gallery and painting a red cross on president's face and private parts. A younger black man then smeared black paint over the picture while the first man was being taken into custody by security guards. ... Czytaj więcej »

Fake malaria drugs litter Southeast Asia, Africa

22.05.2012 4:42   0 views  0 comments
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A study says more than a third of malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality. Czytaj więcej »

Fake drugs threaten gains made in war on malaria

22.05.2012 0:04   0 views  0 comments
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LONDON (Reuters) - Low-quality and fake anti-malarial drugs flooding into markets in Asia and Africa are driving drug resistance and threatening gains made in the fight against the disease in the past decade, according to a study by global health experts. The study found around 36 percent of anti-malarial drugs analyzed in southeast Asia were fake, while a third of samples in sub-Saharan Africa failed chemical testing because they contained either too much or not enough active ingredient. The researchers said the problem might be even bigger. ... Czytaj więcej »

Bardem shows plight of Saharawi in film documentary

21.05.2012 21:48   0 views  0 comments
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Spanish actor Bardem poses after the presentation of a campaign by the MSF in MadridMADRID (Reuters) - Astonished by squalid conditions he saw when he first travelled to Saharawi refugee camps in southwestern Algeria four years ago, Spanish actor Javier Bardem has told the story of the former Spanish colony in Northern Africa in a new documentary. "Sons of the Clouds", which screened at the Berlin film festival in January and premiered this weekend in Spain, was produced by and stars Bardem, who won an Oscar for his role as a stoic hitman in the Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men. ...


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