Essential medicinesKenyaLocal productionLow-and-middle-income countriesMedicine registrationPublic healthTanzaniaUgandaBackground:Essential medicines (EMs) are those that satisfy the basic healthcare needs of the population. However, access to EMs remains a global health challenge. The World Health ...
Essential medicines are supplied to the public health facilities using the pull and push system. In many countries the decision to use the pull, push or combination of both is a policy decision, but Uganda has used each of the supply system individually in past and currently is using a hybri...
“The WHO’s addition of heat-stable carbetocin to the Essential Medicines List brings us one step closer to tackling this life-threatening condition that impacts thousands of women and their families,” said Klaus Dugi, Chief Medical Officer, Ferring Pharmaceuticals. “This milestone is thanks to ...
about 1/3 is not included in all levels of hospital drug list,mainly is proprietary Chinese medicines.About 50% secondary hospitals and basic medical and health institutions in the presence of but for 3 consecutive months is more than 50 kinds of basic drug varieties.In addition,78% of the ...
Explaining the slow transition of child-appropriate dosage formulations from the global to national level in the context of Uganda: a qualitative study In 2007, the Sixtieth World Health Assembly (WHA) passed a resolution entitled "Better medicines for children" and subsequently the World Health Orga...
Our objective was to determine the availability, pricing and affordability of beclometasone, budesonide and salbutamol, the three asthma medicines on the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines (EML) in selected low- and middle-income countries and to reflect on the appropriatene...
Access to essential medicinesProportion of health facilities with availability of the WHO-recommended core list of essential medicinesProxyFacility survey(R)<30Insufficient data currently availableMedicines are the main intervention resulting from clinical services, and their availability provides a proxy for...
UGANDATYPE 2 diabetesDRUG accessibilityPHARMACEUTICAL policyTUBERCULOSISMALARIAObjectives: To determine alignment between national and World Health Organization (WHO) treatment recommendations, medicines prioritisation in country's essential medicines list (EML), and medicines availability in ...
DETERMINANT OF ESSENTIAL MEDICINES AVAILABILITY IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES IN UGANDAOkello T.ROlido KMshilla M.MInternational Journal of Pharmacy
In Uganda, access to controlled medicines is also problematic, but a lack of data on factors that influence access exists.Ooms, Gaby IsabelleKlatser, Paulvan den Ham, Hendrika A.Reed, TimHlth Act Int Overtoom 60-2 NL-1054 HK Amsterdam NetherlandsJournal of pain and symptom management....