Interpol and South African songbird Yvonne Chaka Chaka have launched a music campaign to fight counterfeit medicine in Africa. The campaign theme is a song titled Proud to Be, produced by Yvonne and and Senegalese music legend Youssou N'dour. The campaign was launched in Nairobi by Industrialisation minister Amason Kingi.
Yvonne, a celebrated musician, attended the launch but Youssou did not make it. "Playing with people's lives using counterfeit medicines should be fought," she said. Yvonne said she is proud to fight drugs criminals because she is a mother, and loses millions of shillings every year through music piracy. "This is what I call political will," she said. WHO estimates that 25 per cent of the drugs sold in developing countries are fake, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.
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