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| Counterfeit drugs on the increase - Saturday, May 28, 2011Health experts are warning that there is an increase in counterfeit drugs for children on the market. The deputy principal of Makerere University College of Health Science Dr Celestino Obua says most drugs for children are not genuine and cannot treat the health complications children suffer from.
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| China cracks down on fake products to Uganda - Sunday, April 10, 2011CHINESE nationals caught exporting counterfeit and substandard products to Uganda are to be imprisoned for 20 years.This is one of the new measures China has announced to curb the vice. read more ...
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| Counterfeit contraceptives hit market in Uganda - Sunday, April 03, 2011THE National Drug Authority (NDA) has issued a public alert on counterfeit morning-after pills that are on sale in the country. read more ...
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| Uganda - piracy threatens software industry - Wednesday, December 01, 2010Last year, MP Edward Baliddawa, a member of the parliamentary committee on information and communication technology, said about 90% of all Microsoft software on Ugandan computers was not licensed. He urged the Government to ensure that copyright and intellectual property rights are respected. read more ...
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| Uganda's revised bill against counterfeits draws reactions - Monday, August 16, 2010The Uganda office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the country’s National Drug Authority are satisfied that the new version of the controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill does not threaten the importation and production of generic drugs by conflating them with fake drugs, as the first draft of the bill did. But health rights activists are not convinced. read more ...
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| Uganda's counterfeits bill threatens access to medicine - Tuesday, November 10, 2009The Counterfeit Goods Bill seeks to prohibit trade in goods that ostensibly infringe intellectual property rights. read more ...
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| Ugandan standards body wants more power to fight counterfeits - Tuesday, October 06, 2009Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) does not have adequate powers to fight and eliminate sub-standard products in the local market, experts have said. read more ...
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| Uganda: Counterfeits law urgently needed - Thursday, July 16, 2009Kampala — THE counterfeits fake and mostly substandard products pose a health and safety risk is well known. read more ...
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| Counterfeits killing Ugandan industries - Thursday, July 16, 2009A study by the East African Community, released last week, shows the extent to which counterfeit products have invaded almost every sector in Uganda, forcing genuine businesses to close down. read more ...
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| Counterfeit cables worry - Wednesday, January 21, 2009Cable dealers in the region are worried about the increasing incidence of fake cable dealers in the region read more ...
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| Fake solar products flood market - Tuesday, October 21, 2008Fake solar inverters, bulbs and batteries have flooded the local market, an expert warned last week. Prof. Peter Adelman, a consultant with Phocos Solar Energy, told a workshop at the Makerere University Faculty of Technology that the customers had to be cautious because the market was not clean. read more ...
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| Fake sanitary towels flood market - Sunday, October 19, 2008Procter & Gamble Services, a major sanitary towels maker, lost 20% market in the past three months due to an increase in fake products. read more ...
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| Fake cosmetics impounded - Friday, October 03, 2008A combined force of security operatives on Thursday intercepted over 300 cartons of counterfeit cosmetics. The cosmetics worth millions of shillings are among the fake commodities that have, of recent, flooded Ugandan market. read more ...
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| Fake goods threaten local producers - Friday, September 12, 2008The influx of cheap fake imports is stifling the growth of local industries. “Counterfeiting is grave in developing economies like Uganda which is one of the largest consumers,” said Moses Sebunya, the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) publicist.
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 Counterfeiters in Uganda are threatening the manufacturers and population alike.
Counterfeit electrical conductors and cables that catch fire, fertilizers that can destroy crops, batteries that explode or leak, personal care products that can cause skin and mouth irritation, as well as food products and medicine – these are some of the counterfeit products that the Ugandan and East African population as a whole is unwittingly gaining access to.
The main problem is a lack of awareness amongst the population. Few are aware of what counterfeit products are and even fewer have an understanding of the wider implications caused by counterfeit trade.
The Ugandan counterfeit trade forms part of the entire region’s network of organised crime and, at a premier exhibition to promote Ugandan-made goods and services in November 2007, the proliferation of counterfeit products into the local markets was identified as a major economic threat. The country's manufacturers and industrialists led by the Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) is accusing some unscrupulous businessmen of colluding with foreigners to make counterfeit goods with similar labels and trade names as those made by Ugandan manufacturers. The PSFU is calling on the Ugandan government to become more proactive in protecting the home-grown manufacturing industry and to bring in legislation involving heavy sentences for counterfeiters. In its turn, the Ugandan government blames the business community for not collaborating with the government to apprehend those involved in counterfeit production and trade.
Against the backdrop of this disagreement, the East African Community recently announced plans to help stop counterfeit goods from swamping the markets of its three founding partner states; Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.
A Memorandum of Understanding between the EAC and the Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF) was also signed in November 2008. Under this agreement, the ICF will assist the region in the war against piracy and imported fake products. New legislation designed to hamper and penalise the proliferation of counterfeit products will also be introduced.
Shopping in Kampala – Uganda
 Shopping in Kampala brings together African and Western culture; old meets new. There are plenty of ‘modern’ shopping centres, Garden City being one of these, and road-side stalls where you are expected to haggle but prices are a good deal lower than you will find at the western-style shops.
Click here for a useful guide to the art of haggling in Uganda. Owino Market is a great place for local crafts but beware the fake Sony radios!
The local currency is the Uganda Shilling. Ugandan shilling notes of shs 500 and smaller are no longer legal tender and have been replaced with coins (50, 100, 200 and 500). Larger notes are 1,000, 5,000, 10,000, 20,000 and 50,000. Be wary of counterfeit currency: huge sums of counterfeit currency were circulated in the country back in 2006.
Click here for a link to information and images on Ugandan currency.
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