# \[e-drug\] Fake ARVs on Uganda Market **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [August 5, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-fake-arvs-on-uganda-market/20242 "2004-08-05T18:49:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kibumba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c67d28/32.png) [@kibumba](https://talk.edrugplus.org/u/kibumba)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-fake-arvs-on-uganda-market/20242/1 "2004-08-05T18:49:24Z")
E-drug: Fake ARVs on Uganda Market ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Dear E-drug Users, In my country we had a happening recently worth raising in this forum. Fake ARVs were found on the market! But instead of instituting mechanisms to ensure tracking, rooting out of fake items from circulation, we seemed to hear mudslinging! Unjust people have heard about the Global Fund -- we can only be sure of the fact that fake expensive items will appear, and the need to lay strategies against them ahead of time is urgent. This is what is worrying: expecting pharmacists, the National Drug Regulatory Authorities (NDRAs) to inspect, and test every ampoule of injection, tablet, capsule, glove, cotton wool, laboratory reagent, etc. Sounds familiar? Fact is that sometimes fake items may resemble good medicines, laboratory reagents and sundries, and it is not possible to test the smallest unit of count that every consumer receives. So it appears we must, not only get either pharmacists (wherever possible) or dispensers (pharmacy technicians) at sites delivering ARVs. But also there is need to both sensitize them and the general public about how to report items suspected to be fake, to the National Drug Regulatory Authorities. And the NDRAs must always act in order that the people begin trusting the Regulatory Framework. It seems mudslinging helps little. George Kibumba, MPS., Teaching Assistant, Clinical Pharmacy, Dept of Pharmacy, Makerere University, P.O BOX 7072, Kampala, Uganda. Private: P.O BOX 33543, Kampala, Uganda. E-mail: kibumba@yahoo.com Mobile: 256-78-430 080. -- To send a message to E-Drug, write to: e-drug@healthnet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@healthnet.org in the body of the message type: subscribe e-drug OR unsubscribe e-drug To contact a person, send a message to: e-drug-help@healthnet.org Information and archives: [http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug](http://www.essentialdrugs.org/edrug)