When doctors and patients fail to adhere to proper standards of treatment, it results in a higher disease burden, including greater financial costs, mortality, and morbidity. In Ukraine, the need to encourage better adherence to standard treatment guidelines became clear in 2011, when a study by SIAPS Program’s predecessor, the Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program, … Read more
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Drug Use Reviews—A Practical Strategy to Ensure the Rational Use of Anti-Tuberculosis Medicines
This manual is intended as to aid national tuberculosis program (NTP) managers, national pharmacovigilance center managers (NPV), tuberculosis (TB) service delivery providers, health care providers (physicians, pharmacists, nurses, public health officers and other health care professionals), academic institute staff, nongovernmental organizations, researchers, and any other staff working in organizations or individuals who are interested or … Read more
Decreasing the Burden of TB Through Collaboration and Streamlined Approaches
The state of tuberculosis (TB) is in a tug-of-war as current challenges threaten to undo past successes. One of the primary hurdles currently facing TB prevention and cure is the emergence of strains that are resistant to at least two of the most effective medicines (rifampicin and isoniazid). So-called drug-resistant (DR)-TB arises when patients are … Read more
