Challenges of Maintaining Good Clinical Laboratory Practices in Low-Resource Settings

Challenges for the management of hypertension in low-resource settings.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) account for one third of the global mortality and one tenth of the global disease burden; however, if rates of hypertension, a cardiovascular risk factor, were controlled, the reduction of the CVD burden would follow. One of the major constraints for controlling hypertension is the limitation of resources for health care, particularly in low- and middle-income coun...

Good Laboratory Practices: Tyl Responds

The Continued Utility and Viability of Dakin’s Solution in Both High- and Low-resource Settings

Healthcare is expensive and often inaccessible to many. As a result, surgeons must consider simple, less expensiveinterventions when possible. For wound care, an older but quite effective cleaning agent is Dakin’s solution (0.5%sodium hypochlorite), an easily made mixture of 100 milliliters (ml) bleach with 8 teaspoons (tsp) baking soda into agallon of clean water or 25 ml ble...

Telemedicine in Low-Resource Settings

Telemedicine is a fuzzy term with several synonyms (telehealth, e-health, etc), which cover a wide range of topics, all concerning the delivery of health care at a distance. “Health care” itself is a broad concept, encompassing diagnosis and treatment of patients, education of staff, patients, and the general public, and administrative activities, such as collecting public health data, as well ...

Clinical Research in Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Challenge of Implementing Good Clinical (Laboratory) Practices

1 Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium, 2 Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 3 Médecins Sans Frontières United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom, 4 Centre de Recherche Clinique, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, 5 Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, ...