HIV drug resistance: brief report 2024
This brief report summarizes recent information on HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) in the era of integrase-strand transfer inhibitors (INSTI) for HIV prevention and treatment. In this report, WHO documents
Drugs
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Health spending pushed 55 million Indians into poverty in a year: Study
About 55 million Indians were pushed into poverty in a single year because of having to fund their own healthcare and 38 million of them fell below the poverty line due to spending on medicines alone,
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Malaria Drug May Fall Short for Children, Pregnant Women
The most widely used antimalarial therapy may not fully treat some children and pregnant women, according to a new study. These patients' bloodstreams contained lower concentrations of one active ingredient
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UK rivers contain traces of 29 pharmaceutical drugs, finds study
Traces of 29 pharmaceutical drugs have been found in rivers in York. The compounds included antidepressants, antibiotics and medicines to treat epilepsy and diabetes. The York University team which
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Ribavirin effective in treating Nipah, say Pune scientists
PUNE: Scientists at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) have confirmed the efficacy of Ribavirin in reducing the viral load in people infected with Nipah virus, which has claimed at least 16 lives
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Antibiotic supply chains need a cure as they face issues of ‘excess and access’
Antibiotic supply chains are on the brink of collapse, cautions The Netherlands-based Access to Medicine Foundation (AMF), as the world grapples with the peculiar problem of ‘excess and access’ when it
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WHO waiting for DRC approval to send unlicensed Ebola medication
JOHANNESBURG – The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it is awaiting formal approval from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to send in unlicensed Ebola medication to help rein in an outbreak of
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Quantifying the financial burden of households’ out-of-pocket payments on medicines in India: a repeated crosssectional analysis of National Sample Survey data, 1994–2014
<p>The objective of this research is to generate new evidence on financial implications of medicines out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for households. Another objective is to investigate which disease conditions
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Kenya: New Drug Under Test to Help Mothers Beat Malaria
The Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) has come up with a safe and superior drug for managing malaria during pregnancy. The drug, dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine that is a second line intervention
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Kenyan scientists discover new Ebola Vaccine
Professor Aggrey Omu Anzala founding member of Kenya Aids Vaccine Initiative during a past interview. A study seeks to establish whether induced antibodies can prevent the growth and spread of the virus.
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Ebola vaccinations begin in rural DRC on Monday: Ministry
Ebola vaccinations will begin on Monday in the two rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo where the latest deadly outbreak was declared this month, the health ministry said on Saturday, as the