Wellcome Trust-Mahosot Hospital-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
Trends Pharmacol Sci. 2010 Mar;31(3):99-101. doi: 10.1016/j.tips.2009.11.005. Epub 2010 Feb 1.
Since our ancestors began trading several millennia ago, counterfeit and substandard medicines have been a recurring problem, with history punctuated by crises in the supply of anti-microbials, such as fake cinchona bark in the 1600s and fake quinine in the 1800s. Unfortunately this problem persists, in particular afflicting unsuspecting patients in 'developing' countries. Poor-quality drugs are a vital (but neglected) public health problem. They contribute to a 'crevasse' between the enormous effort in therapeutic research and policy decisions and implementation of good-quality medicines.
自从几千年前我们的祖先开始交易以来,假冒伪劣药品一直是一个反复出现的问题,历史上曾多次出现抗生素供应危机,如 17 世纪的假药金鸡纳树皮和 19 世纪的假药奎宁。不幸的是,这个问题仍然存在,特别是在“发展中”国家中,毫无戒心的患者深受其害。劣质药品是一个至关重要(但被忽视)的公共卫生问题。它们造成了治疗研究和决策以及优质药品实施之间的“裂缝”。