Medication access barriers and perceived health consequences in post-war Syria: a cross-sectional study in Homs
Rawan Al-Deeb, Ahmad Bishr Nasra, Mohammad Alaa Aldakak, Bayan Muhrat, Shahd Almansour, Ibrahim Auf, Hussein Almohammad, Fater Naimah, Ahmad Hajjo, Nawal Al-Sebai, Mohammad Keshe · 2026
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War breaks drug supply chains, and residents of Homs, Syria feel the damage at the pharmacy counter. Rawan Al-Deeb and co-authors surveyed more than a thousand people in the city in spring 2026, scoring their barriers to getting medicines and asking what those barriers did to their health.
Only about one in nine said access was easy during the war, while the share reporting poor economic status nearly tripled from before the war. High prices were the most common barrier, named by about seventy percent. Two thirds said their health worsened because medicines were unreachable, and over half linked deaths to shortages. Poverty, being a student, and living far from a provider predicted worse barriers, pointing aid efforts toward cost and distance.
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| CREATOR | Rawan Al-Deeb, Ahmad Bishr Nasra, Mohammad Alaa Aldakak, Bayan Muhrat, Shahd Almansour, Ibrahim Auf, Hussein Almohammad, Fater Naimah, Ahmad Hajjo, Nawal Al-Sebai, Mohammad Keshe |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |