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Medicine Runners: A community-initiated solution to chronic medicine access in underserved communities
(Medpharm, 2018)
Patient access to chronic medicines is crucial in optimising disease management. With the introduction of a decentralised chronic
dispensing unit, stable patients qualify to have access to their chronic medicines away ...
Reasons for missed appointments linked to a public-sector intervention targeting patients with stable chronic conditions in South Africa: results from in-depth interviews and a retrospective review of medical records
(BioMed Central, 2017)
BACKGROUND
Missed appointments serve as a key indicator for adherence to therapy and as such, identifying patient reasons for this inconsistency could assist in developing programmes to improve health outcomes. In this ...
Undergraduate antimicrobial stewardship training for pharmacy students: Creating a foundation for containment of antimicrobial resistance in South Africa
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)
To the Editor: The inappropriate and excessive use of antimicrobial
agents has cultivated the development and progression of antimicrobial
resistance worldwide, which has been recognised as a
threat to global health and ...
FTIR, dissolution and anti-viral activity of nevirapine co-crystals
(OMICS International, 2017)
The study uses Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy to identify five Nevirapine (NV) co-crystals,
determines the dissolution profile of the co-crystals and the antiviral activity comparative to pure NV.
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Meningitis during COVID -19 pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A call for concern
(Elsevier, 2022-01-01)
Meningitis is a severe infection and a significant public health challenge. The meningitis outbreak resurfaced amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The outbreak ...
Establishment of the African Medicines Agency: Progress, challenges and regulatory readiness
(Springer Nature, 2021)
Insufcient access to quality, safe, efcacious and afordable medical products in Africa has posed a signifcant challenge to public health for decades. In part, this is attributed to weak or absent policies and regulatory ...
Access to chronic medicines: patients’ preferences for a last kilometre medicine delivery service in Cape Town, South Africa
(Springer Nature, 2021)
: Chronic patients are required to access their chronic medicines on a regular basis, often only to refill
their repeat prescriptions. Adherence to chronic medicines is challenging and has stimulated health care providers
to ...
A pharmacist-led prospective antibiotic stewardship intervention improves compliance to community-acquired pneumonia guidelines in 39 public and private hospitals across South Africa
(Elsevier, 2020)
Introduction: Pharmacists in low-middle-income countries (LMIC) are few and lack antibiotic stewardship (AS) training. The ability was assessed of non-specialised pharmacists to implement stewardship interventions and ...
Exploring the utility of a spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting system in identifying drug–drug interactions between antiretrovirals, antitubercular drugs, and cotrimoxazole: a case/non-case analysis
(Springer Nature, 2020)
Background: Drug–drug interactions (DDIs) cause significant morbidity and mortality, especially in patients with HIV with opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis. However, the literature on quantitative signal detection ...
Development of a method to determine the cost of breast cancer treatment with chemotherapy at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
(SAMA, 2020)
There has been no comprehensive study determining the financial burden of breast cancer in the South African (SA) public sector. Objectives. To develop a method to determine the cost of breast cancer treatment with ...