Tackling Nigeria’s Medication Management Challenges of Access and Adherence
Access to necessary medications for illnesses such as HIV/AIDS can be a struggle for patients in emerging markets like Nigeria ...
Tag: drugs
NAFDAC raises alarm on the use of anti-inflammatory drugs
Late October 2020, Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said it received a report about ...
New clue explains why cancer patients respond differently to same treatment
A sketch of the mitochondria Researchers from Mount Sinai and IBM have discovered a novel clue in explaining how cancer ...
WHO advocates fully oral regimens to treat people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it is recommending shifting to a new treatment course in which drugs ...
In Nigeria, drug abuse is highest in the southwest
Many factors are responsible for the surge in drug abuse in Nigeria, Dr. Adetola Oladimeji reports... The first ever report ...
Shorter treatment for lymphatic filariasis is being piloted in Kenya
IDA treatment, a new triple drug therapy with the potential to reduce the time to treat and break transmission of ...
Paying more for less – Africa’s peculiar new drugs challenge
Dr. Ikpeme Neto draws attention to the non-inclusion of African subjects in locally relevant drug trials I happened upon a ...
‘Security in Nigeria threatened by widespread substance abuse’
'War against illicit drugs and abuse must be a collective effort by all Nigerians' Nigeria has warned manufacturers against the ...
There is a new treatment for river blindness
Until now, ivermectin was the only approved drug for the treatment of river blindness Medicines Development for Global Health (MDGH) and ...
Nigeria announces major steps to address codeine abuse
Nigerian government admits widespread codeine abuse, announces new measures The Nigerian government has placed immediate ban on the importation of ...
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