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THE FIGHT AGAINST FAKE MEDICINE IN SE ASIA


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7PM: DOCUMENTARY - The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that counterfeit drugs are associated with up to 20 percent of the one million malaria deaths worldwide each year. Reliable statistics in Southeast Asia are hard to come by, partly because the damage seldom arouses suspicion and because victims tend to be poor people who receive inadequate medical treatment to begin with. Partly shot in Cambodia, Mark Hammond’s PHARMACIDE: THE MEKONG (2012, 52 min) follows the proliferation of substandard and counterfeit medicines in South-East Asia.

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