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Doctors have called for an urgent global effort to stop the use of counterfeit and substandard medicines in many poor countries. Writing in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, they say that thousands of children receive fake drugs to treat diseases like malaria and pneumonia. One scientist involved in the study is Joel Breman from the US National Institute of Health in Maryland. He spoke to Newsday.

(Picture: Fake medicines seized in Ivory Coast. Credit: Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images)