Stakeholder perspectives on the demand and supply factors driving substandard and falsified blood pressure lowering medications in Nigeria: a qualitative study.

Grace ShedulOlutobi Adekunle SanuadeEugenia N UgwunejiTunde M OjoAishwarya VijayPatrick PonzingInuwa OkpeGabriel Lamkur ShedulMark D HuffmanDike OjjiLisa R Hirschhorn

Published in: BMJ open (2022)

Our findings suggest that demand for and supply of SF BP lowering medications in Nigeria are driven by multi-level, interrelated factors. Multi-pronged strategies need to target stakeholders and systems involved in drug production, distribution, prescription, consumption, regulation and pricing.

Keyphrases

blood pressure
hypertensive patients
heart rate
emergency department
type diabetes
adipose tissue
weight loss
electronic health record