This is the second issue of the bulletin for the year 2006. Several topical issues that are of current relevance and importance are hereby brought to our readers attention .We certainly hoped that the information covered has been magnificently useful particularly to the health professionals and the public in general. This edition is brought to…
In collaboration with national AIDS control programs and other relevant programs, groups from the International Network for Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD) conducted a survey in five East African countries— Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda—. The aim of the survey was to appraise some aspects of the current practices in antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs.…
Emergence of antimicrobial resistance is a result of the use, overuse and misuse of antibiotics both in humans and animals. In Ethiopia, there are indications on the misuse of antibiotics by health care providers’, unskilled practitioners, and drug consumers. These coupled with rapid spread of resistant bacteria and inadequate surveillance contributed to the problem. Bacterial…
Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Authority of Ethiopia (FMHACA) Adverse Drug Event reporting form Patient Name (abbreviation) ———————— Card No —————— Age, Date of birth —————– Sex ———- Weight ————– Height ——————— Ethnic group ——————————————– Substance of abuse ————————————————————————————— Information on suspected drug/vaccine S=suspected drug C=concomitantly used drugs Drug name(write all information…
Spontaneous reporting is the voluntary reporting of an adverse reaction by a physician, pharmacist and other health professionals or a patient with the main objective being able to provide signals about potentially serious, previously unknown safety problems with marketed drugs. In Ethiopia voluntary reporting has been effective as of 2002 through the rigorous activities performed…
Pharmacotherapy has always been an integral part of healthcare system and will remain so in the future. This relies on the availability of safe, effective and affordable medicines with the required quality, in reasonable amount. Moreover, on the rational prescribing, dispensing and use of such medicines. Ethiopian drug policy ensures that medicines which are required…
