• Standard treatment guidelines were found in 13% of public health facilities and the essential drugs list in 17% of the facilities.
• However the median percentage of medicines prescribed that were on the EDL was found to be 81%. The high adherence to prescribing according to EDL compared to the low availability of EDL in public health facilities is probably because the range of medicines procured and supplied to these facilities is within the EDL and generally only those medicines are available.

Figure 4.18 Percent availability of STGs and EDL in public health facilities.