Open AccessRetail pharmacy prescription medicines’ availability, prices and affordability in Eswatini
Author(s) -
Garikai Shambira,
Fátima Suleman
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
african journal of primary health care and family medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.654
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 2071-2936
pISSN - 2071-2928
DOI - 10.4102/phcfm.v13i1.2986
Subject(s) - pharmacy , economic shortage , medical prescription , private sector , medicine , essential medicines , business , public health , economic growth , family medicine , economics , nursing , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
Limited availability of medicines in public facilities and unaffordable prices in the private sector act as barriers to medicines' access. Patients in Eswatini may be forced to buy medicine from the private sector resulting from chronic medicines' shortages in public health facilities. The extent to which they can afford to do so is unknown.