On a Wednesday morning the primary healthcare clinic in a small rural South African town is busy.¹ A line of caregivers, mostly women, wait with babies and small children for routine check-ups and immunisations. In the adjacent waiting room patients sit or stand outside a door marked ‘Chronic Clinic’. A nurse is taking blood pressure readings and recording the numbers in the notebooks that patients have brought with them. When her turn comes, Agnes, a woman in her late forties, enters the consulting room and, helped by the woman doctor in charge, cautiously lowers herself onto a seat. A domestic
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