Adaptation of Tuberculosis Control Strategies to Serve Populations Living in Special Circumstances

Madre de Dios, a department located in the Peruvian Amazon, is a settlement site for artisan gold miners. Members of this population group, consisting primarily of males who have emigrated from surrounding departments, live and work in precarious circumstances, which leads to high incidence rates of both primary tuberculosis (TB) and MDR-TB.

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Informe de viaje a Brasilia, Brasil

Esta visita tuvo por objetivo participar en un taller de presentación y discusión de los resultados de estudio del desempeño de las estrategias de control de la malaria en nueve Estados Brasileños, usando criterios de adecuación. Durante esta visita también se presentaron los resultados del estudio de acceso y uso de medicamentos antimaláricos en áreas … Read more

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Evaluación rápida del desempeño de las estrategias para el control de la malaria en Honduras utilizando un diseño de adecuación: Reporte final

Basado en el esquema propuesto por Habicht y cols., para este estudio se eligió el nivel de “adecuación”, lo cual implicó evaluar si las estrategias de control se implementan de forma técnicamente correcta, con los recursos necesarios y con la calidad requerida. Este tipo de evaluación es de suma importancia debido a que el resultado … Read more

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Rapid Assessment of Malaria Control Performance in Belize Using an Adequacy Design: Final Report

The epidemiology of malaria has significantly changed in the Americas during the last decade. Between 2000 and 2009, the number of cases reported in the entire region decreased by 50 percent from 1.18 million to 526,000. This study looks at the impact of different control strategies on the reduction of malaria in Belize using a design … Read more

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Capacity Needs Assessment for Pharmaceutical Services for the ART Program in Lesotho

An assessment of the numbers and skills of health workers involved in the provision of ART-related services in an attempt to maximize efficiency of ART service provision in the country. It identifies what skills are required to provide good quality pharmaceutical services, what skills are available, and how the gaps identified can be addressed.

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Guidelines for Implementation of Pharmaceutical and Therapeutics Committees in Gauteng Province

In the Republic of South Africa’s  Gauteng Province, the Provincial Pharmaceutical and Therapeuticals Committee (PTC) developed guidelines to support an integrative PTC network to optimize available resources and the rational use of medicines. These guidelines provide practical tools to hospitals and district PTCs to ensure the quality of therapeutic care with respect to good governance principles.

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Switching ART Patients to Second-Line Regimen

The purpose of the research was to identify the reasons for switching patients from first-line regimens to second-line regimens in the public healthcare setting in Gauteng Province. This study was an observational descriptive study. Randomly selected medical records for patients over 15 years old on second-line ART regimen attending public healthcare facilities in Gauteng’s five … Read more

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