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USAid cited for deals with blacklisted firm

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Business Daily | by Edwin Mutai


Parliament has put the US Agency for International Development (USAid) on the spot for contracting a blacklisted firm to distribute life-saving HIV and tuberculosis drugs while rejecting the services of the State-run Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa).

The Health committee of the National Assembly Thursday questioned the award of the contract to the privately owned American firm, Chemonics International, which stands blacklisted in Nigeria for financial fraud.

“The ministry has told us that USAid is reluctant to meet them over the change of contractor to distribute ARVs…

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