Fighting to Protect the Sick

Researchers develop high-tech paper test cards to determine if medicines are genuine, leading to safer treatment of illness around the world.

In Eldoret, Kenya, the harm imposed by substandard or counterfeit medicine is all too real. Unscrupulous manufacturers or distributors replace expensive medicines with cheaper, less effective ones – or even worthless maize meal or chalk. This type of activity is more than fraud; it’s a matter of life and death. Each year, counterfeit and substandard medicines kill more than 300,000 people worldwide.

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