How donors are killing local drug producers in lucrative drugs trade

USAID and Global Fund have taken over drug procurement leaving local firms to supply low value products. [File, Standard]

Donor-funded drugs skewed to favour imports are killing the local pharmaceutical industry, a new study shows.

In what researchers call a classic example of how globalisation is cannibalising economies in East Africa, many local companies have already stopped producing some medicines because of cheaper donor funded imports from India and China.