EXCLUSIVE: Despite Court Injunction In $186Million Dispute With Nigerian Firm Acouns, Abbott Diagnostics Set To Launch ‘Determine HIV Test Kit’ Project –Sources

Sources familiar with the dispute told SaharaReporters that the planned project has heightened tensions between the parties in the ongoing case before the Federal High Court in Lagos, where Acouns is challenging Abbott's termination of a longstanding distribution agreement and its continued dealings involving the Determine HIV 1/2 Test Kit.

Despite an ongoing legal battle and a subsisting court order restricting the importation and distribution of an HIV test kit, Abbott Diagnostics is set to proceed with a groundbreaking ceremony for a manufacturing project in Nigeria, a move that sources allege is aimed at sidestepping Acouns Nigeria Limited, the indigenous company that introduced the product to the Nigerian market over three decades ago.

Sources familiar with the dispute told SaharaReporters that the planned project has heightened tensions between the parties in the ongoing case before the Federal High Court in Lagos, where Acouns is challenging Abbott's termination of a longstanding distribution agreement and its continued dealings involving the Determine HIV 1/2 Test Kit.

According to the sources, the manufacturing initiative is being pursued while legal proceedings remain unresolved and despite an interlocutory injunction obtained by Acouns.