Kristin Palitza
DURBAN, Jun 4 2010 (IPS) – African medical experts have realised they need to make a much bigger effort to educate rural communities if they want to effectively contain the continent s tuberculosis (TB) epidemic.
TB patient in a Kenyan hospital: community-based care and treatment is extending the reach of limited facilities and personnel. Credit: Siegfried/IRI…
Laura Lopez Gonzalez
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 2 2011 (IPS) – Delays in drug registration by the country s Medicines Control Council (MCC), contribute to depriving South African HIV patients of important fixed dose combination antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. But there are indications that the effects of the delays are being felt even farther afield.
In December 2010, South Africa announced a new, two-year tender for ARVs which halved drug costs for the national HIV treatment programme; The tender however failed to include many fixed dose ARV combinations, which although approved by bodies like the World Health Organization are not yet registered by the MCC for use in South Africa.
By combining multiple drugs into one, fixed dose combinations reduce the number of pills HIV patient…
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 12 2015 (IPS) – With the rainy season still far from over, flood-affected communities in the Sagaing Region and other parts of northern and western Myanmar are preparing for more hardships, while the government continues what the United Nations has called an “incredible” relief effort.
In a released on Aug. 12 upon her return from the Kale Township in Sagaing, U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar Renata Dessallien referred to the people in this Southeast Asian nation of 53 million as being among “the most generous in the world”, adding she was “humbled by the spontaneous public outpouring of solidarity and assistance to flood-affected communities.”
Everyone from ordinary citizen volunteers and residents to NGO workers and…