Ethiopia is grappling with a severe medicine shortage, largely due to an ongoing forex crisis. A personal initiative to bring essential medicines from Kenya highlighted the acute need, with requests for treatment of chronic conditions like cancer and diabetes pouring in. This action, costing around $500 and supported by a donor, helped roughly half of […]
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