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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New medicines to improve treatment, management of TB
Pharmacists in thirty districts across the country have been introduced to new TB medicines expected to improve the management and treatment of patients suffering from Tuberculosis. According to Floribert
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Urban stream microbial communities show resistance to pharmaceutical exposure
<p>Residues of pharmaceuticals are increasingly detected in surface waters throughout the world.In four streams in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, we detected analgesics, stimulants, antihistamines, andantibiotics
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Alternative therapeutics for self-limiting infections—An indirect approach to the antibiotic resistance challenge
<p>Alternative therapeutics for infectious diseases is a top priority, but what infections should be the primary targets? At present there is a focus on therapies for severe infections, for which effective
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Uganda, Kenya carry out new trials in injectable HIV drug
Uganda and Kenya are among seven African countries carrying out large-scale clinical trials of a long-lasting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in sexually active women. The trials, called
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Recent changes in populations of critically endangered Gyps vultures in India
<p>Populations of the White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis, Indian Vulture G. indicus and Slender-billed Vulture G. tenuirostris declined rapidly during the mid-1990s all over their ranges in the Indian
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Govt makes it compulsory for pharmacists to provide details of TB patients
Meerut: The UP health department’s decision to make it mandatory for pharmacists to routinely provide details of people buying 13 tuberculosis drugs falling under Schedule H1 of the Drugs and Cosmetics
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Single dose vaccine may control cholera outbreaks: Study
In a recent study, a group of researchers have developed a high-dose cholera vaccine for controlling outbreaks. The vaccine, named Vaxchora, is a single-dose, live-attenuated oral vaccine. It was approved
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Eritrea: National Policy of Traditional Medicines Ratifies
Asmara — The Ministry of Health has ratified and made public the national policy of traditional medicines at a meeting conducted on 6 December at Orotta Referral Hospital Hall. The national policy was
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Test of 1st cattle lung disease vaccine to start next month
Kenyan researchers will next month start testing Africa's first livestock vaccine against cattle lung disease. The vaccines can be stored at room temperature. Dr Hezron Wesonga from the Kenya Agricultural
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Antimicrobial resistance big threat to humans: UN Environment report
Antimicrobial resistance from environmental pollution is among the biggest emerging health threats, a UN Environment report said on Tuesday. Launched during the United Nations Environment Assembly at