title: [Control of the quality of antiretroviral medicines used in Senegal].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Success of any program to fight AIDS passes through out quality of antiretroviral medicines. The control and follow-up of the quality of these medicines constitute essential levers to guarantee quality. Our study aims to evaluate the quality of antiretroviral medicines used in Senegal by means of a mini laboratory from the German Pharmaceutical Health Fund.
  
  
  METHODS
  The mini laboratory provides technical arsenal necessary for the analysis. To sum up, 43 samples of antiretroviral medicines have been submitted to three types of simple, quick and reliable tests which are physical and visual inspection, disintegration and thin layer chromatography.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The obtained results give at physical and visual inspection, 9.3% of samples which are not similar. 30 samples out of 32 have a good disintegration time. About 11.6% of samples are not similar to thin layer chromatography.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The control of the quality of antiretroviral medicines is necessary if we consider the number of no conform cases which are relatively important. The mini laboratory can constitute an interesting tool for technical control facilities in developing countries that suffer from a real lack of materials.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire National de Contrôle des Médicaments du Sénégal.
authors.forename: S O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Sarr
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Diop
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Diop
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ndiaye
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Koffi
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fall
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Smine
mesh_terms: D044966:Anti-Retroviral Agents / Q000032:analysis*; D002626:Chemistry, Pharmaceutical; D006801:Humans; D011786:Quality Control; D012675:Senegal
chemical_list: D044966:Anti-Retroviral Agents