Poverty

President orders plan to alleviate poverty

President Maithripala Sirisena has ordered officials to prepare a plan in the new year to alleviate poverty in the country.

Publication Date: 
02/01/2019
The Island (Sri Lanka)
Tags:
Sri Lanka, Poverty, Drugs, Development
Health

Antimicrobial resistance in leprosy: results of the first prospective open survey conducted by a WHO surveillance network for the period 2009–15

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a priority for surveillance in bacterial infections.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2018
E. Cambau, P. Saunderson, M. Matsuoka & et al
Clinical Microbiology and Infection
24
12
1305–1310
Tags:
Leprosy, WHO, Research, India, Brazil, Colombia, Antibiotics, Drugs, Statistics, Diagnostic Methods
Health

DR Congo begins first-ever multi-drug Ebola trial

The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today announced that a randomized control trial has begun to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of drugs used in the treatmen

Publication Date: 
27/11/2018
Big News Network
Tags:
Africa, Congo, Ebola, Drugs, WHO
Health

Clinical trial of injectable ARV drug starts in Uganda

Uganda has started recruiting women for trials of a long-lasting injectable antiretroviral drug for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis.

Publication Date: 
21/11/2018
East African (Kenya)
Tags:
Africa, Uganda, AIDS, Drugs, Health Care
Health

Top drugmakers not doing enough to provide medicines to poor countries: Report

Many of the world's top drugmakers are not doing enough to provide medicines to poor countries, leaving big gaps in access to treatments in crucial disease areas, including cancer, according to a n

Publication Date: 
21/11/2018
Tags:
Drug Industry, Drugs, Diseases, Cancer, Communicable Diseases
Health

Access to medicine index 2018

The Access to Medicine Index finds that a handful of pharmaceutical companies are developing the bulk of urgently needed new medicines for the poor.

Publication Date: 
20/11/2018
Access to Medicine Foundation
Tags:
Drugs, Drug Industry, India, Global, Health, Diseases
Health

Introduction and geographic availability of new antibiotics approved between 1999 and 2014

Despite the urgent need for new, effective antibiotics, few antibiotics of value have entered the market during the past decades. Therefore, incentives have been developed to stimulate antibiotic R&D.

Publication Date: 
16/10/2018
Cecilia Kållberg, Christine Årdal, Hege Salvesen Blix & et al
PLoS ONE
1-19
Tags:
Antibiotics, Drugs, Micro Organisms, Infectious Diseases
Health

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding Drug Price Control Order 2013, 10/10/2018

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of All India Drug Action Network & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 10/10/2018 regarding Drug Price Control Order 2013.

Judgement Date: 
10/10/2018
Tags:
Drugs, India, Health Policy, Legislation
Health

Single dose moxidectin versus ivermectin for Onchocerca volvulus infection in Ghana, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a randomised, controlled, double-blind phase 3 trial

The morbidity and socioeconomic effects of onchocerciasis, a parasitic disease that is primarily endemic in sub-Saharan Africa, have motivated large morbidity and transmission control programmes. Annual communitydirected ivermectin treatment has substantially reduced prevalence.

Publication Date: 
06/10/2018
Nicholas O Opoku, Didier K Bakajika, Eric M Kanza & et al
Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
392
1207-1216
Tags:
Diseases, Ghana, Congo, Liberia, Africa, Drugs, Medical Research
Health

Global tuberculosis report 2018

India accounted for 27 per cent of the 10 million people who developed tuberculosis in 2017, the highest among the top 30 high TB burden countries in the world, according to this WHO report

Publication Date: 
18/09/2018
World Health Organization
Tags:
Tuberculosis (TB), Health Effects, Diseases, Drugs, India, Global

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