The State Expert Center of the Ukrainian Ministry of Health in collaboration with SIAPS held a meeting on strategic planning for strengthening the capacity of the pharmacovigilance system on December 12, 2012 in Kyiv. An effective pharmacovigilance system consists of proper ways of detecting, assessing, understanding and preventing adverse effects of medicines and medical products. … Read more
SIAPS’ Dr. Mohan P. Joshi, Principal Technical Advisor, was invited to present at the Treatment for Tomorrow: Finding Breakthrough Innovations for Tackling Antibiotic Resistance meeting which was organized by ReAct and Duke University and took place in Durham, North Carolina from December 6-8, 2012. The meeting focused on sharing experiences and discussing possibilities on where … Read more
Formally launched earlier this year in Cameroon, the SIAPS Program has been working on strengthening the overall pharmaceutical management system, specifically to ensure the people of Cameroon have access to safe and affordable medicines at the central and peripheral levels. U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission in Cameroon, Lisa Peterson, discussed SIAPS’ important work in the … Read more
In early fall 2012, the SIAPS Program completed a rapid assessment in Rwanda in collaboration with the Ministry of Health to determine the availability of and management of medicines and commodities for emergency obstetric conditions such as post-partum hemorrhage and hypertension from pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. The assessment was done in 61 health facilities from 10 … Read more
Successful treatment of tuberculosis (TB) is one of the key indicators of a TB Control Program’s performance and essential to containing the emergence of anti-TB drug resistance. Multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) treatment requires medicines that are expensive, involve longer treatment regimens, are toxic, and can cause patients to have severe side effects. However, international guidelines … Read more
A common practice in a health system is to have standard treatment guidelines by which all health practitioners use to ensure rational use of medicines and methods. In Swaziland, however, several doctors and health workers apply a variety of approaches to managing common illnesses because they receive their training from different medical schools outside of … Read more
by Gabriel Daniel, SIAPS Principal Technical Advisor Onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis and schisotomiasis are among a group of illnesses known as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that are not commonly heard of which affect over millions of people globally who live in poverty and have poor access to basic needs such as clean water. They can cause … Read more
Cross posted on Maternal Health Taskforce’s blog as part of the Maternal Health Commodities Blog Series. By Beth Yeager, SIAPS principal technical adviser for maternal and child health. Despite a decade of significant progress reducing maternal mortality rates, very few countries are on target to meet Millennium Development Goal #5A of reducing the maternal mortality ratio … Read more
With a population of over a million, landlocked Swaziland faces a shortage of skilled healthcare workers, including pharmacy personnel. There are 64 registered pharmacists, with the majority of them belonging to the private sector as an increasing portion of the population battles several communicable diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and the most prevalent – HIV … Read more
During the annual summer Tropical Medicine Course which is organized by the Global Health Program of West Virginia University, SIAPS’ Dr. Mohan P. Joshi, Principal Technical Advisor, gave a two-hour lecture on essential medicines list (EML). Attendees included various health care professionals such as physicians, residents, nurses, medical students, masters of public health students and … Read more
