UNAIDS WELCOMES KENYAN COURT DECISION ON GENERIC DRUGS CONTROLS
April 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN agency charged with fighting HIV/AIDS has welcomed a decision by the Kenya high court that an existing national law fighting fake drugs is too loosely worded and could promote the seizure of generic medicines made by legitimate manufacturers. UNAIDS' executive director Michel Sidibé said: "A vast majority of people in Kenya rely on quality generic drugs for their daily survival. Through this important ruling, the...court...has upheld a fundamental element of the right to health."
Judge Ms Mumbi Ngugi found that the definition ...
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