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| Title |
Anti-malarial drug quality in Lagos and Accra - a comparison of various quality assessments
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Malaria Journal, June 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1475-2875-9-157 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Roger Bate, Kimberly Hess |
| Abstract |
Two major cities in West Africa, Accra, the capital of Ghana, and Lagos, the largest city of Nigeria, have significant problems with substandard pharmaceuticals. Both have actively combated the problem in recent years, particularly by screening products on the market using the Global Pharma Health Fund e.V. Minilab protocol. Random sampling of medicines from the two cities at least twice over the past 30 months allows a tentative assessment of whether improvements in drug quality have occurred. Since intelligence provided by investigators indicates that some counterfeit producers may be adapting products to pass Minilab tests, the results are compared with those from a Raman spectrometer and discrepancies are discussed. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 X user who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 90 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1% |
| Ghana | 1 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 85 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 16 | 18% |
| Researcher | 14 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 9% |
| Other | 22 | 24% |
| Unknown | 9 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 24 | 27% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 15 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 9% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 18 | 20% |
| Unknown | 15 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 April 2020.
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#4,807,205
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Outputs from Malaria Journal
#1,208
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#19,786
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Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#8
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