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Communication to Healthcare Professionals Mar-2020
This guideline is intended to assist healthcare professionals in the participation of very important process of continuous surveillance of safety and efficacy of the health products which are used in their clinical practice. Continuous evaluation o...
Updated 10 August 2020
This document presents an essential medicines list (EML) to manage patients in intensive care units (ICUs) with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis, which includes active ingredients with dosage form and concentration, and are preferably in the WHO Model Lists of Essent...
Este documento presenta una actualización de las recomendaciones interinas de la Organización Panamericana de la Salud para la gestión de los casos de COVID-19 en los servicios de salud. La lista de dispositivos médicos prioritarios en el contexto de la COVID-19 proporciona normas mínimas, desc...
This guideline aims to improve the quality of donations and the management thereof and serve as the basis for policies of the State and other organizations in the giving and receiving of donations of medicines, medical devices and IVDs.
Over the last three or four decades, there has been an enorm...
Drugs & Therapy Perspectives vol.36 (2020) 6
22 December 2020
The COVID-19 vaccine safety guidance manual has been developed upon recommendation and guidance of GACVS members, as well as by experts incorporating current and available information critical to all stakeholders when COVID-19 vaccines will be introduced.
For ease of use, the man...
Ethiopia National Essential Medicine List
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6 edition
Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Type: Perspectives
Article ID: BLT.19.24843
Zambia Essential Medicines List (ZEML) 05
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2020 Version
Using the WHO model list of essential medicines to update a national essential medicines list
Since 1977, WHO has been working with countries to design the package of essential medicines as an integral component of treatment within the continuum of care, developing and disseminating the Model List ...
GPHF-Minilab: Manuals
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GPHF Minilab manuals on basic dye and thin layer chromatographic testing. The newest version of the manual (Volume I + II) from 2008 is available in three languages: English, French, Spanish. Combining the main manual with the supplements issued each year between 2010 and 2015, label claims on drug...
After completing this activity, pharmacists should be able to:
1. List populations for which the compounding of an oral liquid may be necessary
2. Outline necessary considerations that should be made by the pharmacist to ensure product stability
3. Describe methods used in the compounding of liqu...
The updated List of Essential Diagnostics contains 46 general tests that can be used for routine patient care as well as for the detection and diagnosis of a wide array of disease conditions, and 69 tests intended for the detection, diagnosis and monitoring of specific diseases.
The List is divid...
The Interagency Emergency Health Kit 2017
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Interagency Guidelines; Medicines and medical devices for 10 000 people for approximately three month.
The availability, prices and affordability of essential medicines in Malawi: A cross-sectional study
The Malawian government recently introduced cost-covering consultation fees for self-referral patients in tertiary public hospitals. Previously, patients received medicines free of charge in government-owned health facilities, but must pay elsewhere. Before the government implements a payment policy...
