The World Health Organization (WHO) says one of every 10 medicines sold in developing countries is either fake or of poor quality.In a report this week, WHO officials said fake or substandard drugs are to blame for tens of thousands of children dying. These deaths could be easily prevented, officials said.Trying to understand the problem, experts looked at 100 studies, all of which were completed between 2007 and 2016. The studies examined use of more than 48,000 drugs.The experts found that 10.5 percent of the drugs were not what they appeared to be.Drugs for treating malaria and bacterial infections were responsible for nearly 65 percent of the fake medicines.A statement from WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was released with the report. He asked people to imagine a mother who uses her money for medicine instead of food and then sees her child die because the medicine
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