The World Health Organization (WHO) says one of every 10 medicines sold in developing countries is either fake or of poor quality.

世界卫生组织表示，发展中国家所销售的药品中有近10%要么是假药，要么质量很差。

In a report, WHO officials said fake or substandard drugs are to blame for tens of thousands of children dying. These deaths could be easily prevented, officials said.

世卫组织官员在一份报告中指出，假药或者劣质药是数以万计儿童死亡的元凶。官员们表示，这些死亡原本可以轻松避免。

Trying to understand the problem, experts looked at 100 studies, all of which were completed between 2007 and 2016. The studies examined use of more than 48,000 drugs.

为了弄清这个问题，有关专家查看了100项全部都在2007年到2016年期间完成的研究。这些研究调查了超过4.8万种药物的使用情况。

The experts found that 10.5 percent of the drugs were not what they appeared to be.

专家们发现，这些药物有10.5%是假药。

Drugs for treating malaria¹ and bacterial² infections were responsible for nearly 65 percent of the fake medicines.

用于治疗疟疾和细菌感染的药物占到了假药的近65%。

A statement from WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was released with the report. He asked people to imagine a mother who uses her money for medicine instead of food and then sees her child die because the medicine was of poor quality or falsified.

这份报告还同时发表了世卫组织总干事特德罗斯·阿达诺姆·盖布雷耶苏斯的一份声明。他让人们想象一下，一位母亲拿钱买药而不是买食物，然而因为这些药物质量很差或者是假药，眼睁睁地看着孩子死亡。

Poor countries spend about $300 billion a year for medications. WHO officials said that means the fake drug industry is worth of an estimated $30 billion.

贫穷国家每年在药物上花费大约3千亿美元。世卫组织官员表示，这意味着假药产业价值近300亿美元。

The London School of Hygiene³ and Tropical Medicine estimates that 116,000 people die each year from fake anti-malaria medication in African countries south of the Sahara Desert.

伦敦卫生与热带医学院估计每年在撒哈拉以南非洲国家，有11.6万人死于假冒的抗疟疾药物。

In 2013, WHO officials launched a worldwide system for following fake and compromised drugs.

2013年，世卫组织官员启动了一个全球性的追踪假冒伪劣药品的系统。

It has received reports about nearly 1,500 problematic medicines, including drugs for the heart, diabetes⁴, fertility, mental health and cancer. WHO also noted⁵ problems with fake vaccines⁶ for diseases such as yellow fever.

该系统已经收到了近1500种问题药物的报告，包括用于治疗心脏病、糖尿病、生育、精神健康和癌症的药物。世卫组织还指出了黄热病等疾病的假疫苗问题。

WHO believes the examples of fake medicine it found are only "a small fraction" of the real problem because many fake drugs are not reported.

世卫组织认为，发现的假药案例只是冰山一角，因为很多假药都没有报道出来。