Drug Shortages Cripple Angola’s Health Service

Drug Shortages Cripple Angola’s Health Service
A toddler runs through Chiulo Hospital in Cunene province, Angola February 24, 2018. Reuters/Stephen Eisenhammer
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OKANAUTONI, Angola—Apart from a few packs of medicine and plastic jars, the shelves at the Okanautoni health center in southern Angola are bare and lack basic drugs for saving lives.

Hours from the nearest town in Cunene province, the clinic has no first-line tuberculosis drugs, no antiretrovirals for HIV, no general antibiotics and just three anti-malarial pills.