Kenya Steps Up Efforts to Fight the Global Fake Drugs Menace

Doctors have raised the alarm over substandard drugs in the market that are killing thousands of people globally every year.

According to a paper published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, doctors called for concerted effort to combat a "pandemic of bad drugs that kill 250,000 children a year" after taking shoddy or outright fake drugs intended to treat malaria and pneumonia alone.

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