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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.
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.
