South Africa: Are Strong-Armed Tactics By Big Pharma Behind the Country's Birth Control Shortage?

An international drug maker may have intentionally muscled out local competition to win the bulk of a national birth control tender.

It was a sunny afternoon in May when Lulama Shongwe made her way to the University of Pretoria clinic. It had become second nature for her to quickly pop into the campus health facility in between classes to receive her usual birth control shot, Nur-Isterate. She did this once every two months.

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