Drug quality is probably improving in Lagos, the largest city of Nigeria, and Accra, the capital of Ghana, which each have serious problems with substandard pharmaceuticals.

Ending the use of DDT in malarious areas may pose great risks to the health and welfare of people and would be based on flawed analysis.

This week's UN Environment Program meeting on insecticide use will surely be enlivened by the Southern African Development Community's recent decision to start producing DDT to combat malarial mosquitoes.

AEI scholars analyze anti-malarial drug samples procured randomly from pharmacies in the largest city in Nigeria, the port of Lagos prior to and after the spectrometers were deployed.

The private sector can and should play an important role in public health, but it remains to be seen whether or not the benefits that have arisen from the AMFm could have been achieved through alternative mechanisms and potentially at lower cost.

"Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines" explores the underground trade in illegal medicines that kills over 100,000 people per year and supplants billions of dollars of real products.

Drug shortages have become a serious problem across East Africa; if oversight does not improve, donor largesse may worsen the health situation there.

AEI's Roger Bate highlights a peer-reviewed paper in Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine which exposes false claims about an insecticide-free malaria control project in Mexico and Central America.