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Pfizer wages war on fake drugs with mobile detectors
Source: Business Daily By GEORGE OMONDI Tuesday, March 20 2012 at 20:28 Global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is distributing mobile detectors of fake drugs in a move aimed at halting trade…
Essentials Shortage Hits Moi Hospital
Source: Nairobi Star Mathews Ndanyi 23 August 2011 The Moi Referral Hospital in Eldoret has been hit by a shortage of essential supplies such as drugs, according to hospital employees….
A.M.R.E.F. Calls On Ministry To Invest In Healthcare
Source: Coastweek NAIROBI (Xinhua) — A leading research expert has called on Kenya to invest in health care in order to ensure sustained efforts towards combating diseases, hunger and environmental…
Poisons board urged to withdraw unregistered medicines from shelves
Source:Daily Nation By Emeka-mayaka Gekara, gmayaka@ke.nationmedia.com Posted Friday, July 22 2011 at 21:18 A government agency has been asked to recall all unregistered drugs from the market. It has also…
Kevin Marsh: Tropical Medicine in Kenya
Source:Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine Q: Your research focuses on child health in the tropics. Can you tell us about it? KM: Originally in fact I trained in adult medicine,…
Cheap malaria drugs to flood Africa soon
Source : Daily Independent LAST UPDATED AT Sat Apr, 30 2011 By Yinka Shokunbi With the renewed determination of the international community to sweep out malaria out of Africa, a…
Kemsa sets stage for cheaper drugs with new division
SOURCE: BUSINESS DAILY By DENNIS ODUNGA Posted Wednesday, April 6 2011 at 00:00 Public sector medicine supplier Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) has established a new division that will sell…
UN anti-crime chief highlights Kenya’s role in tackling regional security threats
Source un.org 28 March 2011 – The head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today met with Kenyan officials in the capital, Nairobi, to discuss a…
WHO names drugs for mothers, children
SOURCE: THE VISION By RAYMOND BAGUMA Tuesday, 22nd March, 2011 THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has released the first-ever list of recommended medicines that countries, including Uganda, should use to…
Aids packs to help cut HIV infections in infants
SOURCE: THE EAST AFRICAN By CHRISTABEL LIGAMI Posted Monday, March 21 2011 at 00:00 Kenya has scaled up its efforts towards preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, through an innovative method…
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