Pain Killers & Medicine

IS IT REAL, OR FAKE?

So to tie in with what i was saying about Malaria, I have also found that they are having issues in Africa with drug companies. The medicine that would normally be used to treat malaria and other deadly diseases would get watered down and this dents the effeciency and would not really help the sick. Apparently 10-15% of all drugs are believed to be fake, but in Africa they say that up to 50% of all medicines are fake. Now there is talk about using text messages via cell phones to prove that the drugs are genuine.
    
       This ties in with my recent post about Malaria, but it also ties into several things we have discussed in class. Now that there are all these problems with medicine, we go back to my groups presentations on cell phones and technology in Africa. Medical issues are a big thing in Africa, and now through the use of cell phones, it is opening many doors. Now the people in Africa with cell phones can use this new scratch off code on their medicine and text it to find out if it is genuine. This is amazing. We should do more stuff like that in America but then we would probably have issues with some genius hacking into the system. That is to bad that one cant even trust drug companies to be truthful about the medicine you are receiving.