Trafficked medical products kill almost half a million sub-Saharan Africans every year, and action is needed to stem the flow, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) states in its new threat assessment report. A lack of access to healthcare and medicines has been fuelling a host of opportunists aimed at filling the gaps, the report Trafficking in Medical Products in the Sahel shows. But, this supply and an imbalance in demand, has triggered deadly results.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/trafficking-medical-products-sahel
[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Sahel medical 2023.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/united-nations-office-drugs-and-crime-unodc
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drugs
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-effects
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
