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. 1992 May;38:1130–1134.

Health Care in Mozambique

Wartime clinics confront shortages, parasites, and terror

Betsy Williams
PMCID: PMC2145864  PMID: 21221330

Abstract

Mozambique has been in a state of near civil war since 1980, which has prevented the country from providing any health care at all to most of its rural citizens. Medications are scarce, and the range of diagnostic tools is limited. The health clinics treat illnesses that include severe anemia, tuberculosis, malnutrition, sexually transmitted diseases, and injuries that are a result of the war, but the biggest killer of all remains malaria.

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