世界衛生組織稱發展中國家有10%的藥品是假藥

The World Health Organization (WHO) says one of every 10 medicines sold in developing countries is either fake or of poor quality.

世界衛生組織表示，發展中國家所銷售的藥品中有近10%要麼是假藥，要麼質量很差。

In a report, 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.

世衛組織官員在一份報告中指出，假藥或者劣質藥是數以萬計兒童死亡的元兇。官員們表示，這些死亡原本可以輕鬆避免。

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.

爲了弄清這個問題，有關專家查看了100項全部都在2007年到2016年期間完成的研究。這些研究調查了超過4.8萬種藥物的使用情況。

The experts found that 10.5 percent of the drugs were not what they appeared to be.

專家們發現，這些藥物有10.5%是假藥。

Drugs for treating malaria and bacterial infections were responsible for nearly 65 percent of the fake medicines.

用於治療瘧疾和細菌感染的藥物佔到了假藥的近65%。

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 was of poor quality or falsified.

這份報告還同時發表了世衛組織總幹事特德羅斯·阿達諾姆·蓋佈雷耶蘇斯的一份聲明。他讓人們想象一下，一位母親拿錢買藥而不是買食物，然而因爲這些藥物質量很差或者是假藥，眼睜睜地看着孩子死亡。

Poor countries spend about $300 billion a year for medications. WHO officials said that means the fake drug industry is worth of an estimated $30 billion.

貧窮國家每年在藥物上花費大約3千億美元。世衛組織官員表示，這意味着假藥產業價值近300億美元。

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine estimates that 116,000 people die each year from fake anti-malaria medication in African countries south of the Sahara Desert.

倫敦衛生與熱帶醫學院估計每年在撒哈拉以南非洲國家，有11.6萬人死於假冒的抗瘧疾藥物。

In 2013, WHO officials launched a worldwide system for following fake and compromised drugs.

2013年，世衛組織官員啓動了一個全球性的追蹤假冒僞劣藥品的系統。

It has received reports about nearly 1,500 problematic medicines, including drugs for the heart, diabetes, fertility, mental health and cancer. WHO also noted problems with fake vaccines for diseases such as yellow fever.

該系統已經收到了近1500種問題藥物的報告，包括用於治療心臟病、糖尿病、生育、精神健康和癌症的藥物。世衛組織還指出了黃熱病等疾病的假疫苗問題。

WHO believes the examples of fake medicine it found are only "a small fraction" of the real problem because many fake drugs are not reported.

世衛組織認爲，發現的假藥案例只是冰山一角，因爲很多假藥都沒有報道出來。