Providing safe medicines for children in Nigeria: The impediments and remedies.

@article{Oshikoya2010ProvidingSM,
  title={Providing safe medicines for children in Nigeria: The impediments and remedies.},
  author={Kazeem A Oshikoya and Idowu Odunayo Senbanjo},
  journal={Annals of African medicine},
  year={2010},
  volume={9 4},
  pages={
          203-12
        }
}
Promoting safety of medicines for children is a global concern which has prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to launch a campaign of "Making Medicines Child Size". Children in Nigeria were once victims of unethical clinical medicine trials and repeated victims of use of fake and adulterated medicines. Considering the magnitude of harms children had suffered in Nigeria from the use of medicines, there is a need for literature review to identify the factors preventing children from… 
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