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Covid Causes Shortage of Psychiatric Drugs in South Africa Bloomberg 12/15/2020 Gemma Gatticchi © Bloomberg Volunteers enter a temporary medical tent at a clinic during a deep cleaning operation in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. The national flag will be flown at half-mast for five days to commemorate the more than 21,000 people who have died as a result of Covid-19. (Bloomberg) South Africa has been hit by a shortage of mental health medication and contraceptives as the coronavirus outbreak and the associated lockdown disrupted manufacturing and imports. The number of so-called stock-outs, when a medicine is unavailable, has doubled this year to over 1,400 reports, according to Ruth Dube, project coordinator at the Stop Stockouts Project, a non-profit that campaigns to end medicine scarcity. Medicines that have run short include lithium, used to treat bipolar disorder, as well as the injectable contr

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