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Do bans on skin lightening products actually work?
Cameroon’s government announced a ban on the sale of skin lightening products in August but is it working?
In August this year, Cameroon’s Minister of Public Health announced that there would be a ban on harmful skin lightening products.
Many of them contain harmful ingredients which alter skin pigmentation and cause other health risks like skin cancer.
Africa Daily’s Alan Kasujja has been looking at whether bans on skin lightening products actually work.
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