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South African patent law : developing a balance between the rights of the patients and promoting innovation within the pharmaceutical industry
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Background: In South Africa many patented medicines are either unavailable or carry prices that most patients cannot afford. The effects of the patents systems on patient access could greatly depending on how the burden ...
Electronic nicotine delivery systems : approach to regulation in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Background: The explosion in the popularity and use of e- cigarettes over the last decade has raised concerns and incited intense discussions over their safety, efficacy and potential public health impact. Globally there ...
Paving a way to effectively regulate African traditional medicines in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
BACKGROUND:
Following the historical suppression of traditional medicines in South Africa, the
government published their National Health Plan in 1994 which made provision for
traditional healing as an integral and ...
Challenges facing researchers conducting clinical trials in HIV prevention in South Africa: a focus on adherence
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
In clinical trials, adherence of the participants to the dosing instructions is a major challenge. Many researchers have identified medication adherence as a topic to further explore in order to obtain good, usable and ...
Prescribing practice at a tertiary level paediatric hospital in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The objectives of the present study were to describe the type and frequency of prescribing errors and error frequency, to determine the error frequency for different drug classes, to identify potential drug interactions ...
Examining the inventory management of antiretroviral drugs at community health centres in the cape metropole, Western Cape
(2013)
South Africa is faced with a high number of people living with HIV/AIDS, and
subsequently a great need to access quality medicines for improving patient therapeutic outcomes. Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) require rigid, ...
Investigation of factors influencing pharmaceutical services and their relation to quality pharmaceutical service delivery in hospitals of a private health care provider group
(2009)
Efforts to improve the quality of service delivery are an ongoing feature in different
organisations. In the private health care sector, particularly pharmaceutical services in private hospitals, such efforts are important ...
Expanding presumptive male partner management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to Western Cape, South African community retail pharmacies
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The effect of industrialisation has thrust the pharmaceutical profession into a clinical paradigm where the approcah to pharmaceutical decisions is more disease and patient orientated. Consequently, South African community ...
The availability of persons nominated for adverse drug reporting and associated challenges in Gauteng regional and district public hospitals
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Background and Objectives: The reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is a major public health necessity. It is estimated that only six to 10 percent of all ADRs are reported worldwide. This number is far less than the ...
The physicochemical characterisation, compatibility testing and solid-state form screening of terizidone - Pyridoxine combinations
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Terizidone (TZD) is considered an essential anti-tuberculosis drug and in South
Africa it is prescribed as part of the multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment
regimen. From a literature study it became ...