WHO recently conducted a survey to assess the availability and cost of a national tracer list of essential medicines in the outpatient sector in Ukraine using a new collection tool – the WHO Essential Medicines and Health Products Price and Availability Monitoring Mobile Application. This tool fac...ilitates rapid and inexpensive data collection at the facility level.
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At least half of the world’s population does not have full coverage of essential health services. Health expenses push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty each and every year, forcing them into terrible choices that no one should ever have to make: Buy medicine or food? Education or ...health care? These stark statistics make the case for universal health coverage compelling.
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The report shows that older people are not getting the healthcare treatments they desperately need. The COVID-19 response has disrupted services for non-communicable diseases such as cancer and diabetes, communicable diseases such as malaria, and much-needed services for mental health. Combined with... a loss of income, many older people are unable to get the medicines they need.
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The report shows that older people are not getting the healthcare treatments they desperately need. The COVID-1...9 response has disrupted services for non-communicable diseases such as cancer and diabetes, communicable diseases such as malaria, and much-needed services for mental health. Combined with a loss of income, many older people are unable to get the medicines they need.
A Summary is available in Russian and Arabic
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FDA’s compounding program aims to protect patients from unsafe, ineffective and poor quality compounded drugs, while preserving access to lawfully-marketed compounded drugs for patients who have a medical need for them. Here you can find informations to laws &policies, compliance action, ....
Update, 2023. En 2021, les résultats préliminaires des études d’observation du projet CARAMAL (Community Access to Rectal Artesunate for Malaria) n’ont pas confirmé l’impact sur la mortalité observé dans l’essai contrôlé de 2009. Par conséquent, en janvier 2022, l’OMS a publié un...e note d’information sur l’artésunate rectal, dans laquelle elle suggérait des mesures immédiates d’atténuation des risques.
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Information note. In 2021, preliminary results of observational studies from the Community Access to Rectal Artesunate for Malaria (CARAMAL) project did not confirm the mortality impact observed in the controlled trial in 2009. Consequently, in January 2022, WHO released an information note on recta...l artesunate (RAS), suggesting immediate risk mitigation measures. To provide clarity on the evidence, WHO subsequently convened independent experts to conduct a formal evidence review of the data from the CARAMAL project, as well as data from other studies evaluating the deployment of pre-referral RAS at programmatic level
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Actualización de 2023. Nota informativa. En 2021, los resultados preliminares de los estudios observacionales del proyecto de Acceso Comunitario al Artesunato Rectal para el Paludismo (CARAMAL, por sus siglas en inglés) no confirmaron el impacto en la mortalidad observado en el ensayo controlado d...e 2009. En consecuencia, la OMS publicó una nota informativa sobre el artesunato rectal en la que se sugerían medidas inmediatas de reducción del riesgo.
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This technical package provides a strategic approach to improving cardiovascular health in countries. It comprises six modules and an implementation guide. This package supports Ministries of Health to strengthen CVD management in primary health care settings. The practical, step-by step modules are... supported by an overarching technical document that provides a rationale and framework for this integrated approach to the management of NCDs.
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Examination of the business behavior of Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer and Baxter in India
Examination of the business behaviour of Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer and Baxter in Uganda
High prices, hard-to-access human insulin, few insulin producers, and weak health systems are just some of the barriers that people with diabetes face a century after insulin was discovered, WHO notes in a new report
The Malawian government recently introduced cost-covering consultation fees for self-referral patients in tertiary public hospitals. Previously, patients received medicines free of charge in government-owned health facilities, but must pay elsewhere. Before the government implements a payment policy... in other areas of health care, it is important to investigate the prices, affordability and availability of essential medicines in Malawi.
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