Browsing Research Articles (School of Pharmacy) by Subject "World Health Organization (WHO)"
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Challenges faced by African healthcare workers during the third wave of the pandemic
(Wiley, 2022)Africa experienced the third wave of the coronavirus disease in 2019, which caused an 18% rise in cases in most parts of the continent. As of January 2022, the region had an estimated 10.4 million cumulative cases and ... -
Describing medicine therapy management of type 2 diabetes mellitus at primary health care facilities in Cape Town
(AOSIS, 2019)Rational medicine use aims to optimise chronic disease management and prevent episodes of hospitalisation that economically burden the health care system. Diabetes mellitus is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases ... -
Exploring the implications of a needs-based pharmacy education framework modelled on population health: Perspective from a developing country
(MDPI, 2019)Globally, health education reform is directing efforts to strengthen the health system through collaboration between health education and health services. However, collaborative efforts vary between developed and developing ... -
The implementation of a risk based assessment approach by the South African Health pProducts Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA)
(Springer, 2023)An extensive backlog of pending regulatory decisions is one of the major historical challenges that the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) inherited from the Medicine Control Council (MCC). Revising ... -
A retrospective analysis of applications for registration of generic medicines processed by the medicines control authority of Zimbabwe
(Springer, 2023)Many applications for registration of medicines are rejected because applicants fail to submit or resolve critical deficiencies in the quality, efficacy, and safety of the medicines. The study aimed to establish approval ... -
Strategies for malaria vaccination during the Covid-19 pandemic in African countries
(World Health Organization, 2022)Since October 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the use of RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine for children in areas of moderate to high transmission of Plasmodium falciparum in Africa.1 The vaccine ... -
Time trends in Tuberculosis mortality across the BRICS: An age-period-cohort analysis for the GBD 2019
(Elsevier, 2022)There were 549,522 tuberculosis deaths across the BRICS in 2019, accounting for 39.3% of global deaths. Among HIV-negative populations, the age-standardised mortality rate (ASMR) of tuberculosis in BRICS remained far ...