The financial burden from non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: a literature review

Table 1 Shares of diabetes expenditure spent on medications

Authors^*	Countries	Spending on medicines as a percentage of total expenditure on diabetes (%)
Rayappa et al. [48]	India	32
Elrayah et al. [46]	Sudan	36 (only insulin)
Villarreal-Ríos et al. [49]	Mexico	37
Khowaja et al. [50]	Pakistan	46
Grover et al. [23]	India	62

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