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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)
PUBLIC HEALTH

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
Drugs: Pharmaceutical Task Group has called for seizures, arrests and prosecutions,to deter sellers and protect confidence in the country’s medicines regulatory system.
PUBLIC HEALTH

Crackdown on illegal weight loss drugs

Pharmaceutical industry leaders and South African regulators have demanded urgent crackdowns, seizures, and arrests to curb the dangerous open sale of unregistered weight loss…

  • Hasina Kathrada
3 min read