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<span style="color: rgb(93, 93, 93); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">I wonder if the author of this op-ed has heard about EPR for pharmaceuticals
and if EPR would have any chance of becoming law in Uganda? If ug.nationmedia passes this on to the author, maybe we will find out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(93, 93, 93); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">"</span><span style="color: rgb(93, 93, 93); font-family: Georgia, "ITC Century W01 Light"; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inappropriate
disposal of pharmaceutical waste in Uganda is a serious but often overlooked threat"</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(93, 93, 93); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">"Majority Ugandans lack knowledge of proper disposal practices of pharmaceutical
waste, and the consequences of erroneously discarding such waste. Besides, many households do not have access to proper waste disposal methods."</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(93, 93, 93); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">"</span><span style="color: rgb(93, 93, 93); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(166, 166, 166)">The
author, Claire Marunga Banura is a pharmacist"</em></strong></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/we-need-proper-pharmaceutical-waste-disposal-3564174" id="LPlnk125682"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/oped/commentary/we-need-proper-pharmaceutical-waste-disposal-3564174</span></a><br>
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