A NAMIBIAN company accused of selling fake AIDS medicines in West Africa has no licence to make the anti-retroviral drugs.
The Ministry of Health and Social Services said yesterday that preliminary investigations had disclosed that Selchi Pharmaceuticals was not even registered as a drug manufacturer in Namibia. The Ministry’s probe followed a World Health Organisation (WHO) warning last year that Selchi Pharmaceuticals had exported a “counterfeit triple anti-retroviral combination” drug known as Ginovir 3D to Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast).A spokesperson for Selchi Garments – the only Selchi business firm listed in the Windhoek telephone directory – yesterday denied that her company had sold anti-retrovirals to the West African nation or anywhere else, but did say it had sought registration as a drugs manufacturer.The WHO said a French laboratory had analysed Ginovir 3D and found no definite trace of any of the three elements listed on the label.On the website o
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