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Supply Chain Continues To Offer Up Expired Drugs

March 2008 | Industry News
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Chaos in Uganda's drug supply chain continues to create a situation whereby out-of-date drugs are being supplied to hospitals and pharmacies. In the latest episode, 14 boxes of expired antiretroviral (ARV) Trimune 30 (stavudine + nevirapine + lamivudine) were supplied to a local hospital by public drug distributor National Medical Stores (NMS). It serves to highlight the country's supply chain problems that have been ongoing for more than a