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Improving antibiotic prescribing for children in the resource-poor setting. [PDF]
, 2015 Antibiotics are a critically important part of paediatric medical care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where infectious diseases are the leading cause of child mortality. The World Health Organization estimates that >50% of all medicines are
Barker, CI +3 more
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Legislating for universal access to medicines : a rights-based cross-national comparison of UHC laws in 16 countries [PDF]
, 2019 Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to ensure that all people have access to health services including essential medicines without risking financial hardship. Yet, in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) inadequate UHC fails to ensure universal
Alexandrov, Nikita V +2 more
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Measuring antibiotic availability and use in 20 low- and middle-income countries [PDF]
, 2020 Objective To assess antibiotic availability and use in health facilities in low- and middle-income countries, using the service provision assessment and service availability and readiness assessment surveys.
Hsia, Y +6 more
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Jornal de Pediatria, 2013 Objective: To perform a critical comparison between the Brazilian national essential medicines list (Rename, 2012) with the list of essential medicines for children (LEMC, 2011) of the World Health Organization (WHO), regarding the differences among ...
Helena Lutéscia L. Coelho +5 more
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Monographs for medicines on WHO’s Model List of Essential Medicines
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2018 To raise awareness about the importance of public pharmaceutical standards, identify if and, if so, where current pharmacopeias are falling short in the development of new and complete monographs and foster collaboration among the various pharmacopeias, to prioritize, develop and make available standards for those key medicines for which no complete ...
Roth, Lukas +3 more
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Adding a Medicine to the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines [PDF]
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2009 Although the concept of essential medicines is not new, the processes that lead to placement of these medicines on the World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines are not well understood. Here, we describe the process by which we added a class of drugs, statins, to the Model List to help combat the growing global epidemic of ...
S P, Kishore, B J, Herbstman
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Core medicines for quality care of the dying [PDF]
, 2013 The proposal by Lindqvist and colleagues of four essential medicines for the control of terminal symptoms is commendable. Having a finite essential medication list facilitates prescribers to prescribe and pharmacies to stock and supply medications to
Tait, Paul A, To, Timothy H M
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What is the WHO essential medicines list? [PDF]
Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2012 This article briefly presents the main characteristics of the World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicines list (EML), a register of minimum medicine needs for every health-care system. The idea behind the list is that the use of a limited number of well-known and cost-effective medicines may lead to improved long-term medicine supply, lower ...
PURGATO, Marianna, BARBUI, Corrado
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In-hospital safety in field conditions of Nifurtimox Eflornithine Combination Therapy (NECT) for T. B. Gambiense Sleeping Sickness [PDF]
, 2012 Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT; sleeping sickness) is a fatal disease. Until 2009, available treatments for 2(nd) stage HAT were complicated to use, expensive (eflornithine monotherapy), or toxic, and ...
A Stanghellini +31 more
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Access to age-appropriate essential medicines: a retrospective survey of compounding of medicines for children in hospitals in Nigeria and implications for policy development [PDF]
, 2017 Policies to improve access to medicines for children in Nigeria do not include compounding as a source of medicines. Compounding is often applied as a last resort in health institutions to provide age-appropriate formulations usually for oral use in ...
Nunn, T +4 more
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