HEALTH● ELEVATEDOct 6 · Oct 6, 2026, 12:00 PM
When streets become pharmacies: Booming illicit markets in Central Africa
UN News · sub saharan africa
Antibiotics, malaria treatments, painkillers, opioids. More than 250 tonnes of medical products were seized over six years in Central Africa. Behind those numbers is an illicit market that thrives not simply despite the region’s fragile health systems, but in part because of them.
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