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Why is South Africa struggling to stop the sellers of illegal weight-loss injections — and how can consumers tell whether the medicines they're buying are safe? (Pavel Danilyuk / Pexels)
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Black market weight-loss drug sellers are moving fast. SA’s regulators are struggling to keep up

As the demand for weight-loss injections surges, compounded copycats and unlicensed drugs like retatrutide are flooding South Africa's market. Regulators are racing to introduce…

  • Linda Nordling
7 min read