The busy Kariakoo market in Tanzanian capital is stocked with merchandise - from imported car parts to handbags – and traders from across Africa come to buy imports to sell at home.
It is said that kariakoo is stocked with knock-off merchandise - imported from china. My fellow tanzanians we need to be carefully with them chines and indians
But the most dangerous counterfeits are the imitation medicines sold to unwitting consumers. In Tanzania, the business of fake drugs is booming, up to 30 percent of medicines at the market are counterfeit.
Problem with chines and Indians are interested in getting a profit, but this is a human rights issue,”. “The consequences of this business are really immense. Take, for example, a person with severe malaria: if he or she cannot access the genuine drug, then it means they may die.” we have to understand that inefficacy of counterfeit pharmaceuticals also is making some Tanzanians to lose confidence in crucial medicines, such as antiretrovirals for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Counterfeit drugs from india and China are designed to fool consumers by using misleading packaging and mimicking the shape, colour, size and imprints of genuine drugs. Fake drugs sold in kariakoo markets include knock-offs of so-called “lifestyle” drugs, such as those for erectile dysfunction and weight loss. But there are also imitations of life-saving pharmaceuticals, including anti-malarial and anti-cancer drugs. Often, counterfeits contain just trace amounts of the purported active ingredients, and sometimes no active ingredients at all. But they are usually difficult to identify without a laboratory test. By the way, I was visiting tanzanzania two yeas ago
Last year a friend of mine found that most pharmaceuticals don’t have the content and quality of the drugs we’d expected. He said the recent test of batch of anti-malaria capsules, show that they contained only wheat flour.
The problem in tanzania is because regulatory officials often lack the capacity or political will to curb the distribution of fake goods. And because legitimate drugs can be expensive, poor consumers also fuel demand by knowingly or unwittingly turning to cheaper counterfeit versions
this is what indians do “they bring drugs from india, and those who supply them know we need these drugs,”. “When they supply them, they supply them in parallel with the genuine drugs. They get more profit – for nothing.”
Hawa waindi inabidi tuwaangalie sana sio watu hata kido pamoja na wachina
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kazi nzuri sana Ndejembi.
It is said that kariakoo is stocked with knock-off merchandise - imported from china. My fellow tanzanians we need to be carefully with them chines and indians
But the most dangerous counterfeits are the imitation medicines sold to unwitting consumers. In Tanzania, the business of fake drugs is booming, up to 30 percent of medicines at the market are counterfeit.
Matayo
MD University
Problem with chines and Indians are interested in getting a profit, but this is a human rights issue,”. “The consequences of this business are really immense. Take, for example, a person with severe malaria: if he or she cannot access the genuine drug, then it means they may die.” we have to understand that inefficacy of counterfeit pharmaceuticals also is making some Tanzanians to lose confidence in crucial medicines, such as antiretrovirals for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Kizito
Sweeden
“By having these counterfeit drugs in our country, it is making our people fearful of conventional drugs and revert back to traditional drugs,”
We need to be carefull of who is behind us. We need our people from outside our coutry to help.
Mrisho
Wichita, KS
Counterfeit drugs from india and China are designed to fool consumers by using misleading packaging and mimicking the shape, colour, size and imprints of genuine drugs. Fake drugs sold in kariakoo markets include knock-offs of so-called “lifestyle” drugs, such as those for erectile dysfunction and weight loss. But there are also imitations of life-saving pharmaceuticals, including anti-malarial and anti-cancer drugs. Often, counterfeits contain just trace amounts of the purported active ingredients, and sometimes no active ingredients at all. But they are usually difficult to identify without a laboratory test. By the way, I was visiting tanzanzania two yeas ago
Maselle
Zimbabwe
Last year a friend of mine found that most pharmaceuticals don’t have the content and quality of the drugs we’d expected. He said the recent test of batch of anti-malaria capsules, show that they contained only wheat flour.
Juma
mbezi beach
The problem in tanzania is because regulatory officials often lack the capacity or political will to curb the distribution of fake goods. And because legitimate drugs can be expensive, poor consumers also fuel demand by knowingly or unwittingly turning to cheaper counterfeit versions
this is what indians do “they bring drugs from india, and those who supply them know we need these drugs,”. “When they supply them, they supply them in parallel with the genuine drugs. They get more profit – for nothing.”
Hawa waindi inabidi tuwaangalie sana sio watu hata kido pamoja na wachina
John
Bukoba
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