Access to medication: key to achieving treatment goals

Access to medication: key to achieving treatment goals.

Access to antimalarial therapy: accurate diagnosis is essential to achieving long term goals.

Health care in malaria endemic areas of Africa is at a crucial tipping point. On the positive side, increased commitment to and funding for malaria control is leading to improved access to effective antimalarial drugs, with over the counter availability and extensive subsidies. However, current efforts do not yet adequately address the need for tools to diagnose malaria accurately and track its...

pharmaceutical strategic purchasing: a key to improve access to medicines

pharmaceuticals are often considered as the most significant cost driver of health care expenditures and at the same time have a major impact on patients’ curative processes and outcomes. other pieces of evidence emphasize that drugs are the input for the production of good health. they are considered as the most important and expensive element in the healthy supply chain and are more associate...

Achieving treatment goals for schoolchildren with asthma.

OBJECTIVES To identify problems in managing asthmatic children in school, which if dealt with would help reduce absenteeism and improve participation in school activities. DESIGN A survey by questionnaire to headteachers. SETTING Schools in Merthyr and Rhondda Cynon Taff, South Wales. SUBJECT Asthmatic schoolchildren in areas studied. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Facilities in schools to manag...

Investing in Family Planning: Key to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Family planning encompasses the services, policies, information, attitudes, practices, and commodities, including contraceptives, that give women, men, couples, and adolescents the ability to avoid unintended pregnancy and choose whether and/or when to have a child. In this commentary, we outline family planning’s links to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlight the transformatio...