In South Africa, drug shops provide a kind of health safety net
Yaguina Nesly waits outside a hut whose corrugated iron walls are smeared with green and white paint. It is one of several unlicensed pharmacies in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR) — outlets for cheap medicines for the city’s many poor. Informal pharmacists, known as “doctas”, thrive here, despite fears they dispense…
