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MedVerify: A Tech Solution to Ghana's Fake Drug Crisis
Last year on a bus to Kasoa, I watched a "preacher" distribute an unknown herbal concoction to passengers - including a little girl - who drank it willingly, trustingly. That moment crystallized Ghana's pharmaceutical crisis for me: in a country where roadside vendors, influencers, and fake prophets peddle unregulated "medicine," how do ordinary people protect themselves? With falsified drugs linked to 267,000 deaths annually in sub-Saharan Africa and media houses advertising unverified products without FDA approval, I built MedVerify - a mobile app that puts drug verification power directly in users' hands through barcode scanning, manual search, and real-time data from Ghana's FDA database
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