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abstract: This study aims a more efficient follow-up of the safety of medicines with human usage on the Ivory Coast territory.
  
  
  METHODS
  The structure responsible for pharmacovigilance in Ivory Coast i.e. DPM listed the medicinal alerts from 2001 till 2010.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It emerges 237 medicinal alerts among which 145 stops of marketing, 55 withdrawals of lots, 33 information notes and 4 levying of suspension of medicines. These alerts result mainly from pharmaceutical companies (49%) and the French Drug Agency or ANSM (ex-Afssaps) (43%). They mainly concern drugs of infectious target (22%) and pneumology (18%) and their motivations are so much industrial with mainly commercial reasons (27%) as of pharmacovigilance dominated by unfavorable profit/risk connections.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results constitute an important database for the survey of the medicines market in Ivory Coast and an additional motivation to accelerate the implementation of a real national center of pharmacovigilance.
authors.affiliation: Direction de la Pharmacie et du Médicament, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Laboratoire de Pharmacologie, de Pharmacie Clinique, de Thérapeutique et de Physiologie, UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques Université de Cocody Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Electronic address: jemigrace@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Amenan Geneviève
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: N'Guessan-Irié
authors.affiliation: Direction de la Pharmacie et du Médicament, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Laboratoire de Pharmacologie Clinique, UFR des Sciences Médicales Université de Cocody Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
authors.forename: Jean-Claude
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Yavo
authors.affiliation: Direction de la Pharmacie et du Médicament, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Laboratoire de Législation Pharmaceutique et de Galénique, UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques Université de Cocody Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
authors.forename: Antoine Serge Guillaume
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Amari
authors.affiliation: Direction de la Pharmacie et du Médicament, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Chimie Thérapeutique, UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques Université de Cocody Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
authors.forename: Ange Désiré
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Yapi
keywords: Côte d’Ivoire; Ivory Coast; alertes; alerts; arrêts de commercialisation; retraits de lots; stops of marketing; withdrawals of lots