Essential medicines for emergency care in Africa

Selection of essential medicines for South Africa - an analysis of in-depth interviews with national essential medicines list committee members

BACKGROUND The South African (SA) public health system has employed an Essential Medicines List (EML) with Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs) in the public sector since 1996. To date no studies have reported on the process of selection of essential medicines for SA EMLs and how this may have changed over time. This study reports on the decision making process for the selection of essential me...

Essential Medicines for Children: An Endocrine Perspective

Emergency care research priorities in South Africa.

BACKGROUND Emergency care research is rarely undertaken in low- and middle-income countries. A manageable 'road map' for research in South African (SA) emergency care is needed to address research gaps. OBJECTIVE To identify, collate and prioritise research topics from identified knowledge gaps in emergency care in SA. METHODS Seventy-six individuals were invited to participate in a modifie...

Thirty years of essential medicines in primary health care.

The development of the first Model List of Essential Drugs2 [1] and the Declaration of Alma Ata [2], which advocated the adoption of primary health care (PHC), were both important milestones in the history of public health. Some elements of both were already in practice in some countries before the late 1970s when the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted and promoted them. They are dependent...

The international association for hospice and palliative care list of essential medicines for palliative care.

The World Health Organization (WHO) requested that the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) develop a list of essential drugs for palliative care to be included in the WHO list of essential drugs. This report describes the process by which this specialized list was developed and the outcomes of that process.