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Why local manufacturers are avoiding Kenya’s most needed medicines
Kenya’s pharmaceutical manufacturers are concentrating on simpler medicines while complex but essential products remain largely imported, according to a new government strategy.
Walk into almost any pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Nairobi’s Industrial Area and you are likely to find the same activity: blister-packing machines producing paracetamol tablets.
According to the recently released Kenya Health Products and Technologies Local Manufacturing Strategy (2026–2030), about 15 Kenyan manufacturers are producing essentially the same pain reliever, all competing in a market already flooded with about 200 imported brands containing the same active ingredient.
