Mathumalar Loganathan Fahrni, Intan An-Nisaa’ Ismail, Dalia Mohammed Refi, Ahmad Almeman et al.
BACKGROUND: Successful mass vaccination programmes are public health achievements of the contemporary world. While pharmaceutical companies are actively developing new vaccines, and demonstrating results of effectiveness and safety profiles, concerns on COVID-19 vaccine management are under-reported...
Zaheer‐Ud‐Din Babar, Sara Ramzan, Faris El‐Dahiyat, Ilias Tachmazidis et al.
Background: One third of the world population does not have access to essential medicines. Diabetes require a long-term therapy, which incurs significant health care cost and thus impact access and affordability. This study aims to assess the availability, prices and affordability of four essential ...
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...
Geetanjali Lamba, Zubin Cyrus Shroff, Zaheer‐Ud‐Din Babar, Abdul Ghaffar
BACKGROUND: Private sector retail pharmacies, or drug shops, play an important role in access to essential medicines and services in low-and-middle-income countries. Recognising that they have the potential to contribute to health system strengthening efforts, many recent initiatives to engage with ...
Sunjida Binta Ali, Nantu Chakma, Md. Saimul Islam, Raian Amzad et al.
Background: Training improves dispensing behavior of drug dispensers in low- and middle-income countries. Between 2018 and 2020, a total of 5,059 Grade C pharmacists, who completed a 3-month training course for availing a “Grade C pharmacist certificate” were trained on Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) ...
Nantu Chakma, Sunjida Binta Ali, Muhammad Shariful Islam, Tanisha Momtaz et al.
BACKGROUND: In 2015, the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) of Bangladesh accredited model pharmacies (MPs) to enhance the quality of pharmacy services across the country. We examined the challenges and opportunities for pharmacists in MPs, and also explored the perspectives of the ph...
Muhammad Akhtar Abbas Khan, Saima Hamid, Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
Abstract Objectives One-fifth of the world’s population lives in eight countries that constitute the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). There is very little coordination among SAARC countries regarding the harmonization of pharmaceutical regulations and medicines safety. Pakis...
Sundus Shukar, Iltaf Hussain, Ahamed Iqbal, Ali Rahimi et al.
OBJECTIVE: South Asia bears a high cancer burden, low universal health coverage and high out-of-pocket expenditure. Access to anticancer medicines is challenging and is influenced by determinants-National Essential Medicines List (NEML), registration and local production-yet these are rarely evaluat...
Darrin Baines, Zaheer‐Ud‐Din Babar
A new series looks at the World Bank's expanding role in global healthGiven t he complexit ies of global polit ics and t he uncert aint ies of int ernat ional relat ions, why should medical pract it ioners be int erest ed in t he World Bank?In a series of five papers, Sridhar and colleagues do much ...