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Africa: WHO Adds Two Cancer Drugs to List of Essential Medicines
East African, 11 July 2019
The World Health Organization (WHO) has added two cancer drugs to its 2019 essential medicines list despite oncologists calling for less toxic therapies for the disease. Read more »
WHO Adds Two Cancer Drugs to Essential Medicines List
The World Health Organisation says the two recently developed immunotherapies - anivolumab and pembrolizumab - have delivered up to 50% survival rates for advanced melanoma, a cancer that until recently was incurable. WHO's Essential Medicines List and List of Essential Diagnostics are core guidance documents that help countries prioritise critical health products that should be widely available and affordable throughout health systems.
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20 July 2018
The Diseases Africans Need To Be Worrying About
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Most African countries are putting measures in place to prevent deaths from noncommunicable diseases like cancer. Tanzania is injecting funding to ... see more »
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Zimbabwe: 'Reduce Cancer Drugs Profit Margins'
The Herald, 1 July 2019
Retail pharmacists should not put profit margins of more than 20 percent when selling cancer-related drugs. Read more »
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Botswana: Cancer Manageable - VP
Botswana Daily News, 27 June 2019
The Vice President, Mr Slumber Tsogwane, says being diagonised with cancer cannot be equated to a death sentence. Read more »
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According to Seed Global Health, over 90% of cervical cancer cases occur in low and middle-income countries. Cervical cancer is the leading cause of death for women in sub-Saharan ... Read more »
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Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) are a major threat in Africa. It is estimated that there will be about 3.9 million deaths from these diseases in Africa by 2020. The burden of ... Read more »
