This Medical Product Alert relates to a number of confirmed falsified chloroquine products circulating in the WHO region of Africa.
Please note that this Medical Product Alert n°4/2020 will be updated as new reports of falsified chloroquine are received and validated by WHO.Between 31 March and 2 April 2020, the WHO global surveillance and monitoring system on substandard and falsified (SF) medical products received nine reports of confirmed falsified chloroquine products from three countries.
All reported products were identified at patient level and all have been confirmed as falsified.This WHO medical product alert N°4/2020 refers to nine different falsified chloroquine products, with different presentations (see Table 1).