Background: High price is a major challenge limiting access to essential medicines especially among the poorest families in developing countries. The study aims to compare the prices of medicines used in the management of pain, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases in private pharmacies and the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) in Tanzania. Pharmacy prices were also compared with the prices of medicines surveyed nationally by WHO/HAI in 2012.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Albendazole is an orally administered broad-spectrum anthelmintic. Currently it is mostly used in the treatment of soil transmitted helminthes, hydatidosis and neurocysticercosis caused Aim of the study. To develop and optimize a formulation of chewable albendazole tablet with improved dissolution rate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe usage of fixed dose combination (FDC) tablets of Lamivudine and Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (TDF) is increasing due to increased incidences of HIV/Hepatitis B and HIV/TB co-infections. This is likely to increase the financial crisis due to limited resources for funding procurement of ready-made products from the pharmaceuticals manufacturing leading countries. Therefore, production of local oral tablets containing Lamivudine and TDF FDC is inevitable.
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