Public Awareness and Identification of Counterfeit Drugs in Tanzania: A View on Antimalarial Drugs

Table 5

Logistic regression on factors associated with identification of genuine and counterfeit drugs.

Factors	⁢Ability to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit drugs		OR (95% CI)	value
	Yes	No
	(%)	(%)
	Knowledge on health effects of counterfeit drugs
Yes	138 (58.2)	99 (41.8)	2.954 [1.47–5.65]	0.003
No	25 (44.6)	31 (55.4)	1
Respondent’s occupation
Health workers	21 (84.0)	4 (16.0)	2.158 [1.248–3.733]	0.006
Non-health workers	142 (53.0)	126 (47.0)	1