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Indonesia bans sale of syrup medicines after at least 99 child deaths

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

The move comes just weeks after the World Health Organization issued an alert over four Indian-made cough syrups that it said were potentially linked with acute kidney injuries and the deaths of 70 children in the Gambia. Continue reading.

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The World Health Organization last year linked the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia to Indian-made drugs. The FDA conducted more than 200 inspections in 2023 in India, following a lull in unannounced inspections during the pandemic. accounts for 30% of India’s total pharmaceutical products exports.

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India must act on drug adulteration – lives around the world are at stake

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

Disregard for manufacturing standards could ruin the country’s reputation as the ‘developing world’s pharmacy’ and risk wider problems globally India’s reputation as the “pharmacy of the developing world”, built assiduously by the country’s pharmaceutical companies since the time of the Aids epidemic, is in serious jeopardy.

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Meningitis vaccine comes to the forefront with impressive study results

Pharmaceutical Technology

The trial, conducted in 1,800 healthy individuals ranging from ages 2-29 years in Mali and The Gambia in 2021, found NmCV-5 induced a strong immune response across five strains of meningococcal bacteria. The World Health Organization (WHO) has set a goal of ending the meningitis epidemic by 2030. percentage points (96% CI, −0.3

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Children are dying. We need a worldwide medicines treaty to avoid further tragedies | Dinesh S Thakur and Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

These syrups are suspected to have caused the deaths of up to 71 children in the Gambia and 18 children in Uzbekistan. Two alerts, one in October and the other in January , were for adulterated cough syrups manufactured by two different Indian companies.

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WHO prequalifies meningitis conjugate vaccine

European Pharmaceutical Review

The first conjugate vaccine to protect against the five predominant causes of meningococcal meningitis in Africa, has been prequalified by the World Health Organization (WHO). MenFive ® has been developed through a 13-year collaboration between the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India Pvt.

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WHO urges supply chain to take action on contaminated medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

Regulators, medicine manufacturers and suppliers have been urged by the World Health Organization (WHO) to take action against contaminated medicines in the supply chain. This is based on recent incidents of over-the-counter cough syrups with high levels of diethylene glycol (DEG) and ethylene glycol (EG).

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