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The Bitterest Pill: Policing Pharmaceutical Crime. In spite of the all-encompassing coverage of the FIFA World Cup saga in Brazil, a more fundamental issue, the provision of universal health, is still making the world headlines: the UK Government faces calls to overhaul pharmacy regulation after a BBC investigation exposed numerous chemists illegally selling dangerous and addictive drugs; while the city of Yaoundé in Cameroon simultaneously hosted the fifteenth International Pharmaceutical Forum in a bid to rein in counterfeiters of pharmaceutical brands.
[ 20 Jun 2014 | No Comment | 24,073 views]
FAKE PILLS. No to the international pharmaceutical crime. The Bridge MAG. Image

Universal health concerns and patients’ safety remain among the thornier of topical issues and a huge challenge of our era, in a world where pharmaceutical brands are increasingly being targeted by counterfeiters.
Global life expectancies are at stake as a dangerous drugs trade impinging on the pharmaceutical mainstream has led to plummeting quality and safety standards in the UK and worldwide in recent decades.
According to the …

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A First Lady Who Puts the Last First. The eponymous charitable Foundation of Cameroon First Lady Chantal Biya is teaming up with the French Association of the world’s oldest international charity, the Order of Malta, to alleviate poverty and eye disease and raise life expectancies among the remotest communities of Cameroon, and, in turn, of the whole African Continent, and the world
[ 20 May 2014 | No Comment | 9,404 views]
Cameroon First Lady Chantal Biya. A First Lady Who Puts the Last First. The Bridge MAG. Image

Ophtalmo Sans Frontières (OSF), a partnership between the Chantal Biya Foundation (CBF) of Cameroon and the French Association of the Order of Malta (FAOM), is aiming to provide ophthalmic disease screenings –incorporating diagnosis, treatment, surgery, and eyewear prescription– for 80,000 people living in remote rural areas of Cameroon, by 2016.

Cameroon’s First Lady, Mrs. Chantal Biya, is very kind: a high-profile international figure whose prestigious status …