A simple handheld device could soon thwart the growing scourge of fake and diluted anti-malarial drugs in Africa and Asia. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced plans to manufacture the device, called CD-3, and then deploy it to Ghana for preliminary tests.
Estimates suggest that malaria, a mosquito-borne illness, kills upwards of 650,000 people each year — with 90 percent of those fatalities occurring in Africa. And counterfeit medication in regions heavily affected by the illness continues to grow, with some research indicating that up to one-third of anti-malarial drugs in Southeast Asia and Africa are either phony or don't contain enough active ingredient to treat the illness.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/24/4262508/fake-malaria-drug-detection-fda-tool
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