Rwanda’s answer: plastic bottles of morphine, produced for pennies and delivered to homes across the country by health workers like Mukantagara. Uwizeyimana is not the youngest among the 70 patients Mukantagara sees. By putting production and distribution under government control and covering the costs for patients, Rwanda has become the new model for Africa. Like all opioids, morphine can be addictive. The movement is spreading slowly across Africa: Twenty-two of 54 countries now have affordable morphine, according to Hospice Africa Uganda.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 25, 2019 09:11 UTC