Elizabeth A. Ashley, Mehul Dhorda, Rick M. Fairhurst, Chanaki Amaratunga et al.
BACKGROUND: Artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum has emerged in Southeast Asia and now poses a threat to the control and elimination of malaria. Mapping the geographic extent of resistance is essential for planning containment and elimination strategies. METHODS: Between May 2011 and Apri...
Armand Van Deun, Aung Kya Jai Maug, Md Abdul Hamid Salim, Pankaj Das et al.
RATIONALE: Based on expert opinion, the global guidelines for management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis impose lengthy and often poorly tolerated treatments. OBJECTIVES: This observational study evaluates the effectiveness of standardized regimens for patients with proven multidrug-resistant tu...
Kyaw Myo Tun, Mallika Imwong, Khin Maung Lwin, Aye Aye Win et al.
BACKGROUND: Emergence of artemisinin resistance in southeast Asia poses a serious threat to the global control of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Discovery of the K13 marker has transformed approaches to the monitoring of artemisinin resistance, allowing introduction of molecular surveillance in remo...
Andrew Nunn, Patrick Phillips, Sarah Meredith, Chen‐Yuan Chiang et al.
BACKGROUND: Cohort studies in Bangladesh showed promising cure rates among patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis who received existing drugs in regimens shorter than that recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2011. METHODS: at 132 weeks and at a previous occasion, with no in...
Naznin Alam, Nadia Saffoon, Riaz Uddin
BACKGROUND: This cross-sectional survey examined the pattern of self-medication and factors associated with this practice among medical and pharmacy students in context to Bangladesh. METHODS: The study used a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 500; 250 medical and 250 pharmacy, students pa...
Nga Thi Thuy, Huong T L Vu, Chuc T K Nguyen, Sureeporn Punpuing et al.
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial misuse is common in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), and this practice is a driver of antibiotic resistance. We compared community-based antibiotic access and use practices across communities in LMICs to identify contextually specific targets for intervention...
Rob W. van der Pluijm, Rupam Tripura, Richard M. Hoglund, Aung Pyae Phyo et al.
BACKGROUND: Artemisinin and partner-drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum are major threats to malaria control and elimination. Triple artemisinin-based combination therapies (TACTs), which combine existing co-formulated ACTs with a second partner drug that is slowly eliminated, might provide eff...
Mohitosh Biswas, Manobendro Nath Roy, Md. Imran Nur Manik, Md Shahid Hossain et al.
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic self medication is highly prevalent in the developing countries due to easy availability and poor regulatory controls for selling these drugs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics for the treatment of various diseases by ...
Deepali Sharma, Rahul P. Patel, Syed Tabish R. Zaidi, Md. Moklesur Rahman Sarker et al.
Ciprofloxacin, a second generation broad spectrum fluoroquinolone, is active against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Ciprofloxacin has a high oral bioavailability and a large volume of distribution. It is used for the treatment of a wide range of infections including urinary tract inf...
Mohammad Sofiqur Rahman, Naoko Yoshida, Hirohito Tsuboi, Naoki Tomizu et al.
OBJECTIVES: To analyse and present the literature describing the health consequences of falsified medicines, focusing on mortality and morbidity, as well as the scale of the issue, the geographic extent, the medicines affected, and the harm caused at both the individual and population levels. METHOD...
Vivekanandan Kalaiselvan, Durga Prasad Thammisetty, D Vivek, Gyanendra Nath Singh et al.
This letter describes the initiatives taken by Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) in monitoring safety of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) drugs [1, 2, 3]. The Collaboration between National AIDS control organization (NACO) & Pharmacovigilance Program of India (PvPI) is aimed to work with periph...
Lombe Kasonde, David Tordrup, Aliya Naheed, Wu Zeng et al.
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown limited availability of medicines in health facilities in Bangladesh. While medicines are dispensed for free in public facilities, they are paid out-of-pocket in private pharmacies. Availability, price and affordability are key concerns for access to medicines...
Syed Masud Ahmed, Nahitun Naher, Tarek Hossain, Lal Rawal
BACKGROUND: The private retail drug shops market in Bangladesh is largely unregulated and unaccountable, giving rise to irrational use of drugs and high Out-of-pocket expenditure on health. These shops are served by salespersons with meagre or no formal training in dispensing. METHOD: This facility-...
Shuvashis Saha, Md. Tawhid Hossain
BACKGROUND: In developing country like BANGLADESH, people depend more on pharmacies due to expediency, shorter waiting time, cost reduction, availability of credit and flexible opening hours. The aim of this study was to investigate medicines dispensing patterns of the pharmacies in RAJSHAHI, BANGLA...
Sarmistha Sarna Gomasta, Aditi Dhali, Tahlil Tahlil, Md Musfique Anwar et al.
Over the last decade, pharmaceutical businesses have battled to standardize product traceability across the supply chain process, enabling counterfeiters to enter the market with counterfeit pharmaceuticals. As a result, an end-to-end product tracking system is crucial for ensuring product safety an...