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Nigeria: Country as Cannabis Haven
Saturday, June 26, 2011 was observed globally as International Anti-drugs Day. As part of activities to mark the day, the United Nations Office against drugs and Crime (UNODC) released its World drugs Report 2011 - a rather unpleasant appraisal of Nigerias fight against illicit [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Youths on the Brink of Marijuanas Scourge
Despite majority of Nigerians familiarity with medical drugs and non-medical drugs such as alcohol, tobacco and caffeine, the spread, use and sale of psychosomatic drugs is taking a frightening [detalii...]
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Uganda: Army Health Centres to Start Receiving NMS drugs
The National Medical Stores has started distributing drugs to security force health facilities. The Stores General Manager, Mr Moses Kamabare, said they will, with effect from this financial year, distribute drugs to all security agencies hospitals including the army, police and prisons. "We were formerly giving them anti-malarial drugs and ARVs under the Global Fund and they would buy other drugs from private pharmacies," Dr Kamabare [detalii...]
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Africa: Counterfeit drugs Kill Patients Desperate for Treatment
What happens when drugs meant to treat diseases actually cause more harm than the disease itself? An estimated 700,000 people are killed every year because of counterfeit malaria and tuberculosis [detalii...]
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Kenya: Needed - Independent Anti-drugs Czar
On Monday, President Kibaki ordered that the anti-drugs police unit be strengthened. Two, he directed that investigations into the narcotic drugs trade target all irrespective of their [detalii...]
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Uganda: Fight Erupts Over drugs Inspection
A job advert placed in the newspaper this month has opened a can of worms, with pharmacists accusing the National drugs Authority (NDA) of throwing open the duty of inspecting human drugs entering the country to persons without specialised [detalii...]
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Kenya: Community to Blame for Drug Problem At the Coast - Activists
Anti-drugs crusaders in Mombasa have called for a shift in the fight against drugs, saying parents, teachers and religious leaders should take the lead.The activists said police have been overwhelmed by the drugs menace, especially at the [detalii...]
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Uganda: China Donates Sh1 Billion Malaria drugs
THE Chinese government has donated anti-malaria drugs worth sh1.25b to Uganda. The drugs were officially handed over to health state minister Dr. Richard Nduhura on [detalii...]
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Africa: War On drugs Blowback Effects
Vast expenditures on criminalization and repressive measures directed at producers, traffickers and consumers of illegal drugs have clearly failed to effectively curtail supply or consumption. [at the same time] the implementation of the war on drugs has generated widespread negative consequences for societies in producer, transit and consumer countries, [including] the growth of a huge criminal black market, financed by the risk-escalated profits of supplying international demand for illicit drugs." - Global Commission on Drug [detalii...]
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Nigeria: 2010 - Alcohol, drugs Killed 2.5 Million Users
A consultant in the Department of Psychiatry, University Teaching Hospital (UTC), Ado Ekiti, Dr L.O. Oluwole, has said that about 2.5 million people died of alcohol and other dangerous drugs out of 190 million estimated consumers of the dangerous drugs last [detalii...]
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Kenya: Alarm Over Banned drugs Still On Sale
drugs banned in Kenya are still available in pharmacies. The Nation managed to buy some of the drugs in Nairobis central business district, Thika Town and Kayole in the outskirts of the city.The Pharmacy and Poisons Board, which had denied that the medicines were in circulation, has appealed to Kenyans with information on the illegal drug imports to alert its [detalii...]
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Angola: Youths Urged to Combat drugs and Alcohol Consumption
The administrator of the Christian Association to Combat drugs, Alcohol and Nicotine in Angola (ACCDANA), Alberto Andre Kifinamene, announced on Thursday that his organization is sensitising the local youths so as to fight against the consumption of drugs and alcoholic drinks in the [detalii...]
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Kenya: Fake HIV/Aids drugs Confirmed On Sale
Following confirmation that fake HIV/Aids drugs are in circulation in Kenya, the World Health Organisation is calling on HIV/Aids patients who suspect they may have been prescribed the fake drugs to contact their doctors [detalii...]
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Gambia: A Cause for Concern the Price of Essential drugs Should Be Debated
There is need for concern to be raised regarding the price of essential drugs for Malaria. There are certain illnesses which could lead to rapid death if not treated with speed. Malaria is one of such illnesses. Many drugs are now becoming ineffective in treating [detalii...]
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Kenya: No Longer Forced to Buy Ineffective Anti-Malarial drugs
People in Western Kenya are now able to buy effective anti-malarial drugs at low prices thanks to the success of the Global Funds subsidy programme, and thanks to honest pharmacists who are reselling the drugs at the recommended low [detalii...]
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Kenya: U.S. Offers to Step Up War On drugs
The US has pledged to vigorously back Kenyas war against drugs, including extraditing [detalii...]
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Nigeria: When I Assumed Office, 60 Percent of Malaria drugs in Circulation Were Fake- NAFDAC, DG
Despite the effort of his predecessor to check fake drugs in the country, the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) Dr. Paul Orhi has said that when he assumed office, 60 per cent of malaria drugs in circulation were fake and [detalii...]
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Namibia: Community Should Fight Against drugs
Commissioner Ananias Muzile, of the Crime Investigations Department (CID), says the fight against drugs is every Namibians social [detalii...]
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Kenya: Court Declines to Bar Imports of Aids drugs
HIV-infected people had reason to be relieved on Friday when a court allowed the continued importation of life-saving [detalii...]
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Nigeria: New Thinking in the War On drugs
The Global Commission on Drug Policy in a recent report suggested that the current method of fighting organised gangs that control the drugs trade has failed, and called on nations to adopt a new [detalii...]
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Africa: Continents Aids Patients Biggest Losers If India-EU drugs Deal Sails Through
Jimmy Gideyi has been on free antiretroviral generic drugs manufactured in India since 2004, when he was confirmed HIV [detalii...]
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Kenya: Call to Fight Drug Trade
An anti-drugs activist has urged the government to beef up security at Lunga Lunga, Taveta and Namanga border points to curb smuggling of drugs into the [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Prices of Antimalaria drugs to Drop by 80 Percent Under New U.S.343 Million Public-Private Initiative
Nigerians and their counterparts within Sub-Sahara Africa and Asia are just a step away from having full access to cheaper and more effective antimalaria [detalii...]
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Gambia: Respect the Cemeteries
It is indeed unfortunate that people are now using cemeteries as the hideouts for illicit drugs, even though such an unimaginable conduct shows that the states crackdown on illicit drugs trafficking in the country is bearing fruit. We want to take this opportunity to call on the youth of the country, often the victims of illicit drugs trafficking to endeavour to uphold the good cultural values that our society is acclaimed for, take advantage of the windows of opportunity created by the leadership to earn honest livelihoods, rather than engaging in acts that ruin our entitlements as human [detalii...]
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Tanzania: Yes, Reduce Prices of Malaria drugs
Researchers have come up with the shocking revelation that nearly a million people die from malaria worldwide each year because they cannot afford the most effective treatment and instead often buy old drugs to which the malaria parasite has become [detalii...]
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Africa: New drugs To Speed TB Treatment
Researchers are testing a new combination of tuberculosis drugs on patients in South Africa which they are hoping will shorten the treatment term of the disease to six [detalii...]
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Boks drugs tests negative
The beleaguered Springboks have received positive news as six drugs tests administered in the wake of last weekend's loss to Scotland have returned [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Nation Caims Fears Over Antimalarial drugs
Concerns that many antimalarial drugs in Nigeria are ineffective are largely unfounded, the countrys National Malaria Control Programme has [detalii...]
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Kenya: Lax Leaders Blamed for drugs Menace
An anti-drugs crusader at the Coast has called on leaders in the region to show commitment in the fight against drugs. Abdulswamad Shariff, the chairman of the Shariff Nassir Foundation, said the drug menace is on the rise again because leaders are lax and cordon the the vice. "Our leaders should be in the fore front in this war on drug traffickers. But they have skipped crucial meetings that directly affect the society," said [detalii...]
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Kenya: drugs - Police Report Comes Up With Zero
The naming in Parliament of of four MPs and a businessman suspected of dealing in narcotic drugs compromised police investigations, says a report by the team assigned to probe the [detalii...]
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Cheltenham Festival 2011: Binocular affair puts Nicky Henderson under the drugs spotlight on day one
Nicky Henderson has six runners tested for drugs after controversial withdrawal of Champion Hurdle [detalii...]
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Ghana: Struggle to Prevent Import of Counterfeit drugs
Counterfeit medicines have flooded the market in Ghana and have even made their way into government hospitals as the countrys drug regulator struggles to control the importation of [detalii...]
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Uganda: Government, Scientists , Fake drugs , Ethics
A section of medics have accused government of laxity in its policy to prevent importation of fake drugs which have severe side effects on unsuspecting [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Baba Suwe - Family, Neighbours Berate Ndlea
Days before Babatunde Omidina was released from detention in the hands of the National drugs and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on bail as he did not excrete the drugs he was alleged to have swallowed, Saturday Vanguard went to his family residence to feel the pulse of his family and neighbours as what began like a childs play gradually became worrisome as authorities of the National drugs and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have not been able to place any evidence against [detalii...]
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Kenya: Board Admits Bad drugs in the Market
The Pharmacy and Poisons Board has admitted to the presence of drugs in the Kenyan market that have not been registered or have failed the requisite tests by the National Quality Control [detalii...]
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Uganda: Power Shortages Ruin drugs in Budaka
Most patients seeking treatment at various health centres in Budaka District are at risk after it was discovered that most essential drugs are poorly stored due to power [detalii...]
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Sporting drugs test failures: eight most unusual explanations, from veal to Vicks inhalers
Alberto Contador, the three-time Tour de France champion, is not the first sportsman to offer an unusual explanation for a failed drugs test. Here are some of the most [detalii...]
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Mozambique: Forced to Use Expired drugs
Mozambican Health Minister Alexandre Manguele admitted on Friday that the countrys hospitals had to use expired drugs last year due to the shortage of medicines in the National Health Service [detalii...]
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Africa: WHO Considers Negotiating Cancer drugs Price
The director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Margaret Chan, said Wednesday in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, contacts will be held with pharmaceutical manufacturers to discuss the reduction of cancer treatment drugs [detalii...]
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Sierra Leone: Anti drugs FC Unveils Club Logo
First division side Anti drugs FC on Sunday unveiled the clubs new logo to show their support for the United Nations Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit [detalii...]
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Africa: States Brownfield At U.N. On Combating International Crime
The challenge to our societies from drugs and crime is not new. drugs endanger the health and safety of our citizens; deprive our youth of their potential; reduce our national productivity; drive up our health care costs; and fund transnational criminal organizations. Drug use in the United States continues to be a serious problem, especially the rising abuse of prescription drugs. Fortunately, over the long term, drug use in the United States has dropped substantially -- declining by approximately thirty percent over the past thirty [detalii...]
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Uganda: drugs Monitoring Efforts Not Enough
Frequent reports of counterfeit drugs finding their way into the Ugandan market despite surveillance by the National Drug Authority (NDA), is worrying. This newspaper yesterday reported that NDA has, in recent days, impounded medicines worth Shs15 million in and around Kampala [detalii...]
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West Africa: Fake drugs Back in W. African Markets
A massive wave of trafficking fake drugs has resumed in West Africa in defiance to a concerted international effort to dismantle the [detalii...]
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Commonwealth Games 2010: womens 100m winner Osayemi Oludamola fails drugs test
Nigerian winner of controversial 100m final in Delhi faces being stripped of her gold medal after failing drugs [detalii...]
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Africa: HIV Prevention drugs Raise More Questions Than Answers
Recent studies have shown that antiretroviral [ARV] drugs can reduce the risk of HIV-infection but for researchers and governments - the research raises more questions than answers about its [detalii...]
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Green tea compounds could shape new tumour drugs
Two compounds found in green tea help to turn off the action of a chemical in the body that is at the root of some types of tumours and a potentially deadly genetic disease according to researchers who say new drugs could [detalii...]
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Women against drugs
The climax of the Womens Rugby World Cup 2010 pool stages on Saturday doubles as Keep Rugby Clean Day when all players, team management, officials and tournament organisers will wear special t-shirts to promote the International Rugby Boards campaign to keep drugs out of the [detalii...]
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Matt Stevens urged to head RFU drugs crackdown
Matt Stevens urged to spearhead new drugs policy in Guinness [detalii...]
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Africa: NGO Questions Role of drugs Companies in Vaccine Deal
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) has questioned why two drugs companies are to receive millions of dollars in a vaccine deal being branded as a huge breakthrough for poor [detalii...]
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Africa: HIV Generic drugs War Goes Global
Kenyans fighting for the right to have access to cheaper generic HIV medicines have won global attention, with the government conceding that it made a mistake in passing a law that could deny its people genuine [detalii...]
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Mozambique: drugs and the U.S. Charge Daffaires
"The value of illegal drugs passing through Mozambique is probably more than all legal foreign trade combined, according to international experts. . . (who) estimate that more than one tonne per month of cocaine and heroin are now passing through [detalii...]
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Green light for teas immunity system boost
Green tea - long known to have health benefits - may be more effective than drugs in fighting diseases of the immune system according to new research in the US. Pharmaceutical companies have searched for drugs that can produce the same effect, but run into problems as the medicines they produce are often [detalii...]
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Ghana: Enquire About drugs Before Purchase; Health Minister Advises Locals
The Minister of Health, Hon. Joseph Yilleh Chireh, has advised the general public to find out about the drugs they purchase anytime they have doubts. This is to promote quality health care among [detalii...]
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Sierra Leone: Govt Must Probe Water Quay drugs Theft
Following reports over the weekend that thieves made away with about 400 cartons of drugs meant for the nationwide free health care delivery scheme, two civil society organizations in the country - the Health Alert and the Health For All Coalition (HFAC) - have expressed serious concern on the [detalii...]
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Dr. Anthony Galea charged with giving NFL players unapproved drugs, including HGH
U.S. authorities have charged a Canadian doctor with unlawfully treating professional football players with unapproved drugs, including human growth [detalii...]
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Britains anti-doping agency and police team up to crack down on trafficking of drugs in sport
UK Anti-Doping has joined forces with law enforcement agencies to crack down on the use of drugs in [detalii...]
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A-Rod, Tiger doc admits he brought drugs to U.S.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A Canadian sports doctor whose high-profile clients have included Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriguez pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to bringing unapproved drugs, including human growth hormone, into the United States to unlawfully treat professional [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Nafdac Impounds 30 Cartons of Fake drugs at Seme
The National Agency for Food And Drug Administration And Control (NAFDAC), Seme Border Command has impounded 360 cartons of fake drugs concealed as baby milk at Ashipa [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Fake drugs Declining - Nafdac
Efforts by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, to reduce the quantity of fake drugs in circulation in Nigeria appears to be having the desired effect if the recent nationwide survey conducted by the Agency is anything to go [detalii...]
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South Africa: Registration Delays Keep HIV drugs Off Shelves
Delays in drug registration by the countrys Medicines Control Council (MCC), contribute to depriving South African HIV patients of important fixed dose combination antiretroviral (ARV) [detalii...]
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Nigeria: After 24 Days in Captivity, Baba Suwe Regains Freedom - But is the Drug Saga Finally over?
Its been over three weeks of drama. Many Nigerians followed the drug saga with keen interest. But relief came the way of Baba Suwe Friday as he was released by Justice Yetunde Idowu of an Ikeja High Court who granted him conditional freedom that if by Friday he had not excreted the suspected drugs, his bail automatically takes effect. However, contrary to NDLEAs claim that he ingested drugs the actor has failed to excrete any such drugs. OJO MADUEKWE looks at the drama that ensued within the last 24 days of Baba Suwes detention and asks whether the drug saga is finally [detalii...]
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Ghana: Alarming News on drugs Smuggling
The news is alarming: "A one million pounds taxpayer-funded anti-traffic campaign to stem the flow of cocaine into the UK, through Ghanas busiest airport is beset with corruption, with drugs police sabotaging expensive British-bought scanning equipment, and tipping off [detalii...]
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Nigeria: 2. 5 Million People Die of Alcohol, Cannabis Annually -Expert
Indication has emerged that 2.5 million people die of alcohol and other dangerous drugs out of 190 million estimated consumers of the drugs [detalii...]
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The rise of prescription drug abuse
Recent U.S. federal strategies to fight prescription drug abuse. A recent national survey found that medical pills rank second in young peoples list of preferred drugs, after marijuana, and that this sort of abuse can lead to addiction to other [detalii...]
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Nigeria: N7.3 Million Expired drugs Destroyed in Kaduna
Expired drugs worth N7.3million have been destroyed in Kaduna by the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN), Kaduna State [detalii...]
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Nigeria: NAFDAC Seizes Fake drugs Worth N2.5 Million in Enugu
NATIONAL Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), yesterday, seized fake drugs worth over N2.5 million in Ogbete Main Market, [detalii...]
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Kenya: drugs Affecting Grades in Kiambu Schools - MPs
Two MPs from Kiambu County have blamed drug abuse in both primary and secondary schools as the main cause of poor performance in national exams. Peter Mwathi (Limuru) and David Njuguna (Lari) warned students that drugs abuse will ruin their [detalii...]
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Illicit drugs Policy launched
Premier Rugby (PRL), the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and the Rugby Players' Association (RPA) have announced the implemtation of what the three bodies are calling the "first comprehensive Illicit drugs Policy in world [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Over 90 Percent of drugs Sold in Enugu Are Adulterated - Orhii
The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration(NAFDAC), Dr Paul Orhii, yesterday disclosed that over 90 percent of drugs sold in Enugu were [detalii...]
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Uganda: National drugs Authority Courts Private Sector to Address Drug Scarcity
The National drugs Authority (NDA) has announced plans to incorporate the private sector to resolve persistent drug shortages in the [detalii...]
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New Illicit drugs Policy in England
The Rugby Football Union (RFU), Premier Rugby (PRL) and the Rugby Players Association (RPA) today unveiled the first comprehensive Illicit drugs Policy in world Rugby [detalii...]
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Floyd Landis: I saw Lance Armstrong using drugs
Floyd Landis, in his first television interview since admitting that he had used performance-enhancing drugs during his career, is once again accusing Lance Armstrong of cheating during Armstrongs record-setting [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Nafdac, Interpol Warn Against Internet Drug Sale
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) , the Interpol and the global police body have warned against the buying of drugs through internet and other social media to counter the new measures adopted by drug counterfeiters in the importation of fake [detalii...]
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Southern Africa: Cause for Celebration After HIV Studies
Results from two trials that took place in three African countries (Botswana, Kenya and Uganda) have shown that HIV treatment drugs, taken daily by people who are HIV negative can reduce the chances of infection by up to 50%. The drugs, that provide Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), obviously provide a breakthrough in the complexities of HIV prevention and there is cause for [detalii...]
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Sierra Leone: Shortage of TB drugs Raises Concern
Peoples Health Movement Sierra Leone Chapter (PHM-SLC), a civil society organization monitoring the anomalies within the health sector, has expressed serious concern over what it referred to as the absolute shortage of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS drugs in the [detalii...]
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British hurdler Callum Priestley faces lifetime Olympic ban over drugs test
British hurdler Callum Priestley has been handed a two-year ban for testing positive for [detalii...]
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Kenya: High School Students Abusing drugs, Alcohol
Forty nine per cent of Kenyan youth in high school aged between 14 and 18 years have abused alcohol and drugs, a report says. A further 71 and 28 per cent of male and female youths were reported to be sexually active; a trend that exposes them to sexually transmitted infections, including [detalii...]
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Saracens Matt Stevens greeted by doping testers on his return to rugby after two-year drugs ban
Prop greeted by drugs testers on return from drug ban with [detalii...]
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Morocco: Morocco Joins Council of Europes Group for Fighting drugs
Morocco has become a new member of the Council of Europes Pompidou Group for the fight against drugs, soaring the organs member States to 36, announced on Monday the [detalii...]
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Somalia: Street Kids Face drugs, Sex Abuse, Militias in Wartorn Mogadishu
The ongoing civil war in Somalia has taken the lives of many parents whose children end up living on the street. The kids use all types of drugs, from opium to glue, and become victims of crime, sexual assault, abuse, exploitation ... and they are prey to recruiters for the countrys [detalii...]
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Uganda: IGG, Health Ministry Clear Quality Chemicals
The ministry of Health last week moved to refute "negative reports" that rather than manufacture ARVs and anti-malarial drugs, Quality Chemicals Industries (QCIL) contravened a memorandum of understanding (MoU) by importing the aforesaid drugs from India at a higher [detalii...]
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Kenya: Mugo Calls for Local Manufacture of Essential drugs
The government should fast-track the manufacture of essential drugs locally Public Health and Sanitation Minister Beth Mugo has said. Speaking at the official opening of the Kenya Pharmaceutical Association (KPA)s annual scientific congress in Mombasa, Mugo said fast-tracking the pre-qualification process of African-based pharmaceutical companies and technology transfer is the best way to ensure increased access and reduced costs of drugs. "If Africa is to attain universal access to medicines, vaccines and commodities, initiatives geared towards local manufacturing of quality medicines and health commodities is the way to go," she [detalii...]
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Sierra Leone: Save the Children, HFAC Lament Hurdles in Clearing Free Healthcare drugs
Health for All Coalition and Save The Children UK yesterday urged the government to take immediate action in removing the barriers that delay the speedy clearance of free healthcare drugs from the Sierra Leone [detalii...]
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Gambia: President Decries Increased Involvement of Security Personnel in drugs
The president of the Republic and commander-in-chief of the Gambia Armed Forces has raised eyebrows on what he described as the "increased" involment of the uniformed services personnel in illicit drugs peddling. He warned that the uniform is not a license for anyone to involve in the menace, and vowed to prosecute anyone caught even with one [detalii...]
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Uganda: WHO Happy With Counterfeit Bill - Activists Not
The Uganda office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the countrys National Drug Authority are satisfied that the new version of the controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill does not threaten the importation and production of generic drugs by conflating them with fake drugs, as the first draft of the bill did. But health rights activists are not [detalii...]
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Commonwealth Games 2010: drugs test could hand Sean McGoldrick belated gold
Sean McGoldrick could be upgraded to a Commonwealth Games gold medal after Sri Lankas Manju Wanniarachchi failed a drugs [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Closure of Open Drug Markets - Legal Mandate Hampers Food and drugs Agency
Director General National Agency for Food and drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Dr. Paul Orhii, has put a final word on the possibility of the body closing down open drug markets in the country making jest of such calls by pharmacists and other [detalii...]
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West Africa: Illicit drugs Threaten Regional Stability, Says drugs Czar
The Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Alhaji Ahmadu Giade, has called on stakeholders to intensify drug control efforts as he identified illicit drug trafficking as a major threat to political stability in West [detalii...]
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Nigeria: Strike - 90, 000 HIV Patients Cant Access drugs in Adamawa
Official records from the North-east zone of the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NEPWAN) have shown that 90,000 newly infected persons in Adamawa State are currently on danger list as they cannot access retroviral drugs due to the ongoing strike in the [detalii...]
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South Sudan: Motion On Scarcity of Lifesaving drugs Passed By Parliament
The South Sudan National Legislative Assembly in its Sitting No. 42/2011, which was chaired by Acting Speaker Right Hon. Gen. Daniel Awet Akot, received a presentation of the motion on scarcity of lifesaving drugs in the major cities of the Republic of South Sudan [detalii...]
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London 2012 Olympics: known former drugs cheat appointed to key operational role
London 2012 Olympic Games officials appoint known former drugs cheat, Sevdalin Marinov, to a key operational [detalii...]
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Jennifer Capriati in hospital following suspected drugs overdose
Former Wimbledon semi-finalist, Jennifer Capriati has been rushed to hospital in Florida after a suspected drugs [detalii...]
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Kenya: Poisons Board Warns Against Sale of Banned Medicine
The Pharmacy and Poison Board has warned chemists and pharmacies against selling nine banned drugs manufactured by an Indian company. Aglowmed East Africa Company, a firm based in India, is said to be illegally supplying the drugs. The board conducted an inspection tour of the company facilities on November 23 and 24, 2009 and declared that the company did not meet minimum [detalii...]
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London 2012: BOA fights to keep lifetime bans for drugs cheats
British Olympic Association officials have filed a formal appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, challenging the World Anti-Doping Agency’s decision to label their lifetime ban for drugs cheats non complaint with their biding code. Both parties have agreed sport’s highest legal authority is the right forum for resolving the contentious issue and are [detalii...]
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South Africa: Public Sector Struggling with Shortages of 80 drugs
South Africa is experiencing a shortage of over 80 different drugs in its public health sector, including flu vaccinations and medication for tuberculosis and high blood pressure. The severity of shortages varies from province to province and hospital to hospital, depending on the leadership and skills levels of [detalii...]
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Alberto Contador to lose Tour de France title and face one-year ban over positive drugs test
Alberto Contador is to be banned for 12 months and stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title over positive drugs [detalii...]
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6.7 billion of medical spend wasted in one year says study
With paying for healthcare a hot political topic in the USA, a study that found enormous amounts of money was wasted on branded drugs and pointless tests may have big implications. A staggering 6.7 billion of US medical spending in just one year is wasted on tests that arent needed and expensive branded drugs according to new [detalii...]
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All in the game: online players open up AIDS drug research
Far from being a waste of time, online games have proved vital in new research which could help design new AIDS drugs. Research results could prove a vital tool in developing new AIDS drugs as the players used a specially designed game called Foldit to come up with an accurate model of an enzyme from a virus similar to the deadly immune system [detalii...]
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Gambia: NDEA Commemorates International Day Against Drug Abuse
The National Drug Enforcement Agency (NDEA) in collaboration with the United Nations Office on drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Sunday, June 26th 2011, commemorated for the first time in The Gambia, the International Day Against Drug Abuse at the Kanifing Municipal Councils ground in Kanifing. The theme of the celebration was: Think health, not [detalii...]
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Ghana: Bekwai MP Supports Four Health Facilities With Gh A126,398 Worth of Assorted drugs
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bekwai in, Joseph Osei-Wusu, has presented assorted drugs worth GH A126,398 to four health facilities in the Bekwai [detalii...]