There are many website pharmacies, including those from overseas, from which it is almost certainly safe to procure medicines, and U.S. consumers should be able to reduce their risk by relying on credentialing agencies recommended lists and by using common sense when examining packaging and pills.

The drug regulatory system in India needs to be improved for domestic consumption and because India is an increasingly important exporter of drugs for both developed and developing countries.

The high persistence of substandard drugs and clinically inappropriate artemisinin monotherapies inAfrica risks patient safety and endangers the future of malaria treatment.

Background

About a third of the world’s population, concentrated in poorer regions of the world, may be infected with TB, which generally lies dormant until the carrier’s immunity is impaired by another disease (often HIV infection). Without treatment, about half of the patients with active TB will die. According to WHO...

The reality is that we simply do not know how efficacious most  drugs really are. 

A significant portion of antimalarial drugs in Africa have been illegally diverted from the public sector, where they were intended to be dispensed free of charge in public health facilities, to the private sector.

New research indicates that many drugs bought by developed-world governments and NGOs fail crucial quality tests.

Drugs purchased by government aid agencies and NGOs using taxpayer dollars are often substandard and dangerous.