A LUSAKA magistrate's court has issued a bench warrant against a Lusaka teacher who is charged with impersonating a medical doctor and allegedly administering fake HIV/AIDS drugs to unsuspecting Lusaka residents at a fee of K5 million. The accused person was allegedly injecting HIV/AIDS patients with a mixture of amino acids claiming that he was injecting them with tetrasil. 8…

As laws are being drafted to regulate the sale of alternative medicine, consumers are being warned against buying drugs off the Internet for personal use. "We are trying to encourage people to stop buying drugs off the Internet because you are not seeing what you are buying. In many instances these are counterfeit drugs and you don't know whether these…

The Union of Senegalese Private Pharmacists on Thursday called a seven-hour general strike – from 8 am to 3 pm- to protest against the illegal sale of drugs and increasing attacks on their businesses. The strike, the first to be called by the union, was widely heeded, with most pharmacies across the country remaining closed, observers said. 2 May 2008…

Papua New Guineans lives are in danger due to increasing amounts of counterfeit and substandard pharmaceuticals being sold in the country, the PNG government has warned. PNG's Minister for Commerce and Industry Gabriel Kapris said fake medicines were being sold across the country. 2 May 2008 Read the full story at sbs.com.au.

Minna zonal command of the Nigeria Customs Services (NCS) has intercepted 10 cartons of drugs illegally smuggled into the country. Mr. S. Iheanacho, the zonal controller of the NWS in Niger State made this known to leadership he said that the truck carrying the drugs was intercepted on the Minna-Suleja road. He said that the drugs were hidden in 60…