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India's producers accused of selling low quality generic drugs to Kenya

 

Kenya: Generic drug manufacturers from India  have been accused of deliberately exporting poor quality medicines to Kenya and other African countries while reserving better products for richer nations.

A report appearing in the prestigious British Medical Journal said several antibiotics and tuberculosis drugs sold in Nairobi and eleven other African cities were of poor quality compared to similar products from the same manufacturers sold in other parts of the world.

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