Malaria remains a leading cause of preventable illness and death worldwide. Pharmacists play a pivotal role in educating communities and providing guidance on malaria prevention and treatment. This webinar explores the critical need for ongoing investment in community empowerment and sustained commitment to malaria prevention and control.
Pharmacists’ ongoing commitment to malaria prevention and control
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Mpox update session: What pharmacists should know
As healthcare professionals, and to be prepared to face any questions from the community, pharmacists must keep up to date about this disease, its symptoms and global distribution, modes of transmission and prevention, treatment options and available vaccines. Particularly for pharmacists practising in countries with confirmed cases, but for all pharmacists around the world, this event will help mobilise pharmacists to promote awareness and prevent disease progression.
Pharmacy engagement in tuberculosis prevention and care
Tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and curable disease. However, according to the WHO, in 2022, it affected 10.6 million people worldwide and caused 1.3 million deaths. TB occurs in all countries and in people of all ages. Multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) remains a public health crisis and a threat to health security, with only about two in five people receiving treatment in 2022. In this digital event, experts will explore the role that pharmacists play in the fight against TB, and how this role can be further leveraged. This event marks World TB Day and aims to strengthen pharmacy engagement, foster collaboration and contribute to a TB-free world through collective expertise and commitment.
Prevención, detección y tratamiento del VIH: Manual para farmacéuticos (2022)
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La epidemia del virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) lleva décadas asolando el mundo y, aunque se han hecho inmensos progresos en materia de prevención, pruebas, tratamiento y calidad de vida de las personas que viven con el VIH, el virus sigue siendo una gran amenaza para la salud mundial y una carga para las personas, los sistemas sanitarios y las sociedades. Los esfuerzos concertados de todas las partes interesadas y de los profesionales sanitarios son esenciales para controlar esta epidemia, y los farmacéuticos tienen sin duda un importante papel que desempeñar.
A medida que el papel de los farmacéuticos evoluciona y se amplía para satisfacer las necesidades cambiantes de las comunidades, sus conocimientos y habilidades siguen siendo la base de una serie de servicios que aportan valor a los pacientes y a los sistemas sanitarios. Este manual para farmacéuticosdescribe una serie de servicios y actividades profesionales en cuatro áreas principales: prevención, detección y pruebas, gestión y optimización del tratamiento, y salud pública y educación.
TBPPM Learning Network
The TBPPM Learning Network is a dynamic online community, fostering South-South learning and exchanges to engage private providers in TB prevention and care. With over 2600 members and organizations, the community convenes in webinars, discussion forums, workshops and documents lessons learned in Feature stories and knowledge products. The online platform functions as a resource center, learning stage and connector.
Infographic for managing cough and other tuberculosis (TB)-presumptive symptoms in the pharmacy.
“Managing cough in pharmacies” project:
Private-sector retail drug outlets (drug stores, pharmacies, chemists, drug sellers) are often the first point of contact for common health issues such as cough and fever, which include symptoms for tuberculosis (TB). Pharmacies are a key ally in supporting people with TB symptoms to receive appropriate and high-quality information, testing and treatment, either through referrals or links with healthcare providers. A study concluded that PPM pharmacy models are needed to End TB as well as to address antimicrobial resistance crisis. Over the last two decades, the role of retail drug outlets has evolved from pilot projects to formal incorporation into country plans (see webinar on Understanding market performance: analysis of private sector TB Drug sales).
There are many models of engaging pharmacies with government TB programs, often through intermediary organizations (Some of these models were presented in a TBPPM Webinar Pharmacies and drug stores: finding people with TB and stepping up TB Care and additional models are outlined in our TBPPM Feature stories and in this article reviewing 19 country lessons).
Yet, to date there are few specific guidelines and practical tools available on TB for pharmacists. As a result, an Infographic “Managing cough in pharmacies” was developed together with key partners, including the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), with background outlined in BMJ Global Health (2023) and publicly made available in mid 2023.
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