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Practical Pharmacist-Led Interventions to Improve Antimicrobial Stewardship in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
- Source :
- Pharmacy: Journal of Pharmacy Education and Practice, Pharmacy, Volume 9, Issue 3, Pharmacy, Vol 9, Iss 124, p 124 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI, 2021.
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Abstract
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) and others have identified, as a priority, the need to improve antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) interventions as part of the effort to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). An international health partnership model, the Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship (CwPAMS) programme, was established between selected countries in Africa (Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda) and the UK to support AMS. This was funded by UK aid under the Fleming Fund and managed by the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) and Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET). The primary aims were to develop local AMS teams and generate antimicrobial consumption surveillance data, quality improvement initiatives, infection prevention and control (IPC) and education/training to reduce AMR. Education and training were key components in achieving this, with pharmacists taking a lead role in developing and leading AMS interventions. Pharmacist-led interventions in Ghana improved access to national antimicrobial prescribing guidelines via the CwPAMS mobile app and improved compliance with policy from 18% to 70% initially for patients with pneumonia in one outpatient clinic. Capacity development on AMS and IPC were achieved in both Tanzania and Zambia, and a train-the-trainer model on the local production of alcohol hand rub in Uganda and Zambia. The model of pharmacy health partnerships has been identified as a model with great potential to be used in other low and middle income countries (LMICs) to support tackling AMR.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
030106 microbiology
education
Psychological intervention
Pharmacist
Pharmacy
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Pharmacy and materia medica
0302 clinical medicine
Nursing
parasitic diseases
Outpatient clinic
Infection control
Antimicrobial stewardship
Pharmacology (medical)
AMR
030212 general & internal medicine
antimicrobial resistance
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
health care economics and organizations
biology
business.industry
International health
CwPAMS
biology.organism_classification
RS1-441
antimicrobial stewardship
Tanzania
Business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22264787
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pharmacy: Journal of Pharmacy Education and Practice
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....04f7743425ac9259a532eef7e9dc96e8