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Medication stockout a crisis in North West

About 26% of people interviewed said they knew someone who had gone to a clinic and left without medicine

Zoe Mahopo Journalist

Dikeledi Mafole, 63, is always running out of antiretroviral (ARV) medication because her local clinic in Itsoseng, North West, experiences shortages.

Mafole, who takes medication for HIV, asthma and high blood pressure, is among frustrated patients haunted by widespread medicine stockouts in the province...

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