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Prof Lieberman interview with Chemistry World
MITI health battles poor quality drugs in Kisumu region
MITI Health was started by Stanford medical student Jessica Vernon as a way to provide high quality medicines to pharmacists in Kenya. The PAD project and AMPATH are partners with MITI Health; we help them conduct confirmatory assays on suspicious products. This KQED news piece describes how a…
Problems in Kenyan Pharmacy and Poisons Board?
Business Daily Africa reports on a whistleblower's claims that in exchange for bribes, the Pharmacy and Poisons board issued permits for non-registered suppliers to import low-quality drugs into Kenya between 2005 and 2011. The Chief Registrar is implicated in the claims. We'll be following this…