Street sellers and private physicians fuel antibiotic overuse

Street vendors sell medicines at a market in Abobo, Côte d’Ivoire. Credit: Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty At Ghana’s biggest hospital, even the strongest antibiotics are starting to fail. A big part of the reason is the rampant overprescription and overuse of these drugs in the West African country of 35 million people. Because many Ghanaians lack access to physicians, those who fall ill often end up buying antibiotics from unauthorized sellers instead. …