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Cote d'Ivoire: High prices drive people to counterfeit medicines

With a severe respiratory infection and a prescription for medicines that would cost 35,000 CFA francs (US$83) at official prices, Drissa Kone has a problem - he has no hope of raising enough money to buy the medicines.

8 Jul 2008

His solution? The stalls of counterfeit medicines at Abidjan's Adjame market that will sell him an illegal reproduction of the original drug at a fraction of the price.

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