Botswana: Inside Botswana Health Crisis

Gaborone — On an ordinary morning at a government clinic, the queue moves slowly. Mothers cradle children. Elderly patients lean heavily on walking sticks.

When at last they reach the dispensing window, many brace themselves for an answer they already expect.

“Ga gona molemo.” Your medication is out of stock.

Across Botswana, this phrase has become an unsettling refrain, one that signals not just inconvenience, but growing anxiety, interrupted treatment and, in some cases, worsening illness.

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