NAIROBI, Monday, 08 March 2010
Kenya’s Anti-Counterfeit Act is being challenged on the basis that it violates the right to health. Three petitioners who are people living with HIV, argue that the law confuses generic and counterfeit medicine. This could cause a health crisis as generics constitute 90 percent of medicines used in Kenya.
A mention was heard today at the Kenya’s Constitutional Court and hearing date set for March 18, 2010. There were about 80 activists –mostly people living with HIV/Aids -present in the High Court hallways in t-shirts with a message saying “fight counterfeits, not generics”
Photo: Activists demonstrate outside the High Court in Nairobi.
The three petitioners want the Constitutional Court to declare the law, which was enacted in July 2009, unconstitutional on the grounds that it will deny them access to more affordable life-saving generic medicines and therefore rob them of their right to life.
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