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Although the availability of essential medicines for heart failure is one of the most important goals of national medicines policies, their unavailability still considered a major problem in the developing and development countries. This research aimed to measure the availability percentage of essential medicines for heart failure in Nafosa mountain area. A survey was conducted on the availability of 7 essential medicines to treat heart failure in public and private sectors in the period of 3 months. 5 public and 5 private pharmacies were selected from 5 different cities: Gheryan, Yefren, Zentan, Asabaa, Jadu. The medicines were selected based on their importance on heart failure treatment. This study showed that the availability of essential medicines for heart failure was 37.14% in public pharmacies and 79.99% in private pharmacies. The percentage of expired medicines was 11.67% in public pharmacies and 5% in private pharmacies. On conclusion, the availability of essential medicines for heart failure was higher in the private sector than public sector؛ Also furosemide had the highest availability percent in both public and private sector and the reasons for that might be its fast effect and cheap price. According to the results, the underlying causes of low availability of essential medicines for heart failure should be eliminated. As well as, the expiry date of these medicines should be checked between time to time in both public and private sectors.