From Isaac Kaledzi / Deutsche Welle: Imagine being able to check whether medicines, textile patterns, or seeds are counterfeit through your mobile phone. mPedigree is enabling just that across Africa. Unexposed fakes are an expensive and sometimes life-threatening problem. At the time of the company’s founding, 20-30% of malaria drugs in Ghana were counterfeit.
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