Buying Malarone in Southern/East Africa
We're on a South-North Africa trip (Eastern side), we're currently in Northern Namibia - we brought enough Doxy for 9 months for the two of us (we tried it out in UK and had no ill effects).
When we started taking it this time my wife had an allergic reaction (swelling of fingers followed by hands followed by arms...). At this point she stopped taking it, went to see a local doctor who was very knowledgeable and recommended she switch to Malarone along with other medication to bring the allergic reaction under control.
We bought 30 days of Malarone in a major Nam pharmacy to test it - all ok so far.
Now - Malarone is EXPENSIVE (I think we paid almost 1500N$ so approx £120 for 30 of them) - is it cheaper (in reliable pharmacies) in other African countries (I'm thinking Botswana, Zim, Malawi, Tanz, Kenya), or do we bite the bullet and buy her entire stock here and now in Namibia?
Anyone with any recent info out there please?
Thanks, Ian
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