Global health

Universal health coverage requires global investment in pharmacy, People’s Commonwealth Forum told

Many low- and middle-income countries still lack the pharmacy workforce needed to provide universal health coverage, Victoria Rutter, executive director of the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association, said at the People’s Commonwealth Forum.…

Leicester is first UK city to join global type 2 diabetes prevention programme

Leicester has become the first UK city to sign up to the Cities Changing Diabetes campaign, a global initative that aims to reduce levels of type 2 diabetes among urban populations.…

New approach needed to tackle rise of multimorbidity

The number of people living from multiple long-term illnesses is on the rise, both nationally and worldwide; however, services are not designed to best meet their needs and it is not known how many patients are affected, a report has found.…

Global antibiotic consumption increased by 65% between 2000 and 2015, study finds

Global antibiotic use in humans increased by 65% between 2000 and 2015, from 21.1 billion defined daily doses (DDD) to 34.8 billion DDDs.…

WHO publishes first AMR surveillance report

The World Health Organization has published its first Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS) report.…

Target to eradicate cholera by 2030 is ambitious

This letter is in response to ‘Boost in availability of oral cholera vaccines is a potential game changer in the global fight against cholera’ in the November 2017 issue of The Pharmaceutical Journal. The author has weighted the article towards the production of a more transportabl…

Investment from across the globe for UK life sciences ‘sector deal’

The government has announced commitments and investment in the UK by 25 global organisations as part of its life sciences “sector deal”…

AMR highlighted as part of World Antibiotic Awareness Week

Effective management of antibiotics can halve the number of people who contract drug-resistant infections in hospital, to mark World Antibiotic Awareness Week, which ran from 13 to 19 November 2017…

Providing medicines information to the masses

Sarah Cavanagh, acting director of East Anglia Regional Medicines Information Service for Ipswich Hospital, looks back on her career and her work with a Tropical Health and Education Trust programme supporting training of health workers and capacity building in Mozambique…

Wellcome Trust launches global project to map antibiotic resistance

A global project to help track and document diseases associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been launched, according to UK health charity the Wellcome Trust.…