In September 2018, Botswana became one of the first countries to transition to the combined drug regimen tenofovir, lamivudine and dolutegravir (TLD), a single-pill antiretroviral (ARV). TLD is the preferred first-line ARV for treating HIV because it is highly effective, safe, and proven to rapidly…
The global effort to optimize antiretroviral (ARV) treatment is an ongoing commitment to people living with HIV (PLHIV) to improve the efficacy, reduce the costs, and limit the side-effects of their treatment.
A 2014 assessment of over 730 public health facilities in Malawi found that more than three quarters of them had less than half of the pharmacy storage space needed to meet existing demands, a situation that would only get worse as the population grew
In Guinea, challenges in establishing regulations to govern the pharmaceutical sector have allowed for unregulated and illicit private pharmacies to proliferate. The presence of these establishments increases a patient’s risk of receiving counterfeit or low-quality medicines.…
On September 16, 2018, Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi inaugurated a new regional warehouse in Nampula in the country’s northern region. With double the capacity of the previous one, the new warehouse is the largest storage facility for medicines and other health commodities in the country and…
