Policy Guidelines for Health Facilities
TB treatment for children is fundamentally the same as for adults, with a combination of TB drugs needing to be taken for a number of months. TB treatment for children consists of an intensive phase followed by a continuation phase. The purpose of t...he intensive phase is to rapidly eliminate the majority of the TB bacteria, and this phase uses a greater number of TB drugs than the continuation phase whose aim is to eradicate any remaining dormant bacteria.
Accessed Nov. 07. 2017
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Policy Brief, Updated in March 2017
Policy Brief, Updated in March 2017
Researchers are devising a clinical-trial protocol to test three medicines in Africa's latest outbreak
Nature doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-06132-7
Q 7: For adults and children with convulsive epilepsy, which standard antiepileptic drugs (phenobarbital, phenytoin, carbamazepine, valproic acid) when compared to placebo/a comparator produce benefits/harm in the specified outcomes?
This paper focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals related to poverty, economic growth, inequality, health, food production and the environment. It presents concrete examples of the underlying and complex aspects of antibiotic resistance and its impacts across different Sustainable Development ...Goals. The aim of this paper is to inform and stimulate discussions on how to further advance the implementation of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance, National Action plans on Antimicrobial Resistance, as well as work within all sectors that affect and are affected by antibiotic resistance
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Opiates, cocaine, cannabis
World Drug Report 2017
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SADF POLICY BRIEF
31 October 2018 Issue n° 8
ISSN: 2406-5625
Translated and adapted from the original English Antiretroviral drugs chart by the East Europe and Central Asia Union of People Living with HIV (ECUO). This resource shows drugs currently available ...in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia area.
Last update Oct. 2018
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World Drug Report 2018
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World Drug Report 2018
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Legislative and Policy analysis and recommendations for reform