{"id":2438,"date":"2011-06-02T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2011-06-02T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T13:07:56","slug":"ips-examines-access-to-medicine-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/02\/ips-examines-access-to-medicine-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"IPS examines access to medicine in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2447\" title=\"lab_malawi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/lab_malawi1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>&#8220;Health experts say [an] inadequate number of nurses and pharmacists is among the leading factors denying people access to medicines in Malawi,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/news.asp?idnews=55776\">Inter Press Service<\/a>writes in an article examining medication shortages in rural Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Studies by Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN), a group of civil society organisations in the health sector, show that while the Central Medical Stores, [the] government&#8217;s drug procurement agency, may stock up to 85 percent of the essential drugs, district hospitals do not have most medicines because of [a] shortage of staff to process the ordering. This affects availability of the medicines in outlying posts,&#8221; IPS reports. The article also looks at the government&#8217;s efforts to expand access to medicine (Mapak, 5\/25).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Health experts say [an] inadequate number of nurses and pharmacists is among the leading factors denying people access to medicines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[707,644],"class_list":["post-2438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","tag-ips","tag-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}