Fake Drugs Kill the Poor

AEI - Short Publications: "Most Nigerians administer their own malaria treatment. They know the symptoms and they know the time-tested remedy--chloroquine, purchased from a local pharmacy or street trader. Unfortunately, chloroquine's effectiveness has deteriorated over the years as the malaria parasite has mutated and gained resistance to the drug. Chloroquine now fails most of the time it is administered. "