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Background: Appropriate drug utilization has a huge contribution to global reduction in morbidity and mortality. While thousands of patients have been wrongly prescribed statins, others at high risk of cardiovascular accidents (CVA) have been deprived of treatment. According to the Adult...

The incidence of HIV-associated Kaposi’s sarcoma remains high in Zambia in the antiretroviral therapy era. The most efficacious treatment regimen for KS has yet to be established. In both developed and developing countries, treatment regimens have had limited efficacy. Late presentation in Africa...

ABSTRACT Background: Acute poisoning remains a common method employed for suicide worldwide. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about 0.3 million people die every year worldwide due to various poisoning agents. Methodology: The study was a cross-sectional descriptive study. A...

Background: Antiretroviral therapy has posed multiple risks and challenges particularly in resource constrained African countries. This is due to the chronic nature of HIV/AIDS disease and hence its therapy, the use of combination therapy and also because therapeutic options and treatment...

Mental health disorders pose an increasing burden on societies all over the world .Notable one is schizophrenia, a debilitating conditions that presents as marked distortion in thinking and perception, whose first presentation of symptoms in a newly diagnosed patient requires accurate and...

The safety and efficacy profiles of herbal medicines have not yet been established in treatment of hypertension. The study investigated the prevalence of herbal medicine use in hypertensive patients being managed at the University Teaching Hospital. It also determined control of blood pressure...

Quality documentation of medication histories at the time of hospital admission with regard to accuracy and completeness is not documented at UTH. A medication history is a detailed, accurate and complete account of all prescribed and non-prescribed medications that a patient had taken or is...

Atazanavir-ritonavir (ATV-r) has been recommended by the World Health Organization as part of second-line combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) in HIV-infected patients aged 6 years and above. In 2013, the Zambia HIV treatment program introduced ATV-ras an alternative Protease Inhibitor (PI)...

Background:Prescribing patterns can greatly have a negative impact on patient care outcomes if not underpinned by use of ideal standards and evidence-based medicine. The overall aim of this clinical research was to determine the antibiotic prescribing patterns among physicians and compare...

Background Discharge is a period of transition from hospital to home that involves a transfer in responsibility from the inpatient health care providers or hospitalists to the patient and primary caregivers. The study was aimed at assessing Caregivers’ Knowledge about medications and medical...