How can you tell the difference between real and fake medicines?

Name: How can you tell the difference between real and fake medicines?
Uploaded: 2021-06-10T08:02:43.000Z
Duration: 3 min 31 s
Description: We look up close at some real and fake anti-malarial drugs that were bought in Nigeria.

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Fake medicines are an issue worldwide.

So what can be done to keep you and your family safe?

Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham, a pharmacist and lecturer in pharmaceutics at King's College London, looks at some real and fake anti-malarial drugs that were bought in Nigeria.

Video produced by Hannah Gelbart.

Africa

10 June 2021