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I'd imagine it's not much different in Central and South America based on my travels. You can walk into any pharmacy and show them the word "amoxicillin" and th
by rufius 10y ago
I'd imagine it's not much different in Central and South America based on my travels. You can walk into any pharmacy and show them the word "amoxicillin" and they'll give you a 2 week course.
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- aquiles 10y agoit depends. i live in an okay-ish part of south america and if a pharmacy gives you antibiotics without prescription they can get arrested, so most don't do it.
- senorjazz 10y agoCan confirm South America.
- cesarbs 10y agoIt used to be like that in Brazil, but in recent years Anvisa (the Brazilian equivalent of the FDA) tightened policy on this and now people can only buy antibiotics with a prescription. BTW, in my experience Brazilian doctors prescribe antibiotics a lot less than American doctors.
- robbiep 10y agoEven the EU is bad - Spain and Portugal allow OTC antibiotics (along with many Asian countries)
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- wosos 10y agoCentral America here, can confirm.
- DanBC 10y agoThat's bad, but at least it's a two week course. Often people in India will buy a few days because that's all they can afford.
- kamaal 10y agoSo this is the way it works in India. Most people who know a little english remember the brand name of the drug. Others just walk to the pharmacy store and narrate the symptoms to the pharmacist. Typically: Sore throat, a little fever etc. Then they state their budget(10-20 rupees), the pharmacist gives two tablets of Azithromycin.
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