Issue 6 of SF Pulse is out now!
The issue highlights the following:
- FtFA Academic Chair Oksana Pyzik issues a powerful call alongside the 78th World Health Assembly to hold those responsible for producing and distributing falsified medicines accountable.
- Writing for ENACT, researcher Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo argues that despite recent progress, Congo-Brazzaville continues to face considerable challenges in combatting the threat of substandard medicines
- Global Press Journal reporter-in-residence Gamuchirai Masiyiwa explores the smuggled medicine trade in Zimbabwe where some vendors even offer diagnoses to their customers, even though they don’t have any medical training
- In her piece for The Chanzo Initiative, journalist Zahara Tundra interviews expert economist Dr. Timothy Lyanga to get a better understanding of the ways in which counterfeit medicines can undermine economic growth
- In The Liberian Investigator, Edwin Dolo recaps recent remarks by Dr. Luke Bawo, head of Liberia’s health regulatory agency, urging sports journalists to join efforts to combat falsified medicines
- Pfizer’s chief oncology medical officer Karin Tollefson and chief security office Lev Kubiak spoke with OncLive about the growing threat of substandard cancer medications, and outlined steps oncologists can take to ensure their patients only receive safe and effective treatments
Read the full issue here: https://bit.ly/4lbK3DR.
