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Sudan war: Chronically ill patients forced to choose between food and medicine
Long-running war and a collapsing Sudanese pound have driven medicine prices beyond the reach of many chronically ill Sudanese, who must choose between buying drugs and buying food. Patients with diabetes, heart disease and hypertension describe interrupted treatment, cold-storage problems for insulin, and costs that consume a family's daily earnings, as damaged factories and a weak currency push Sudan toward imported drugs.