4 Apr 2013
India's Ministry of Health is considering a new label for antibiotics and other pharmaceutical products that would warn consumers about the risks of over-the-counter drug use. CDDEP Director Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan appeared on CNN-IBN's morning program to discuss how the unchecked use of carbapenems and other broad-sprectrum drugs in the community is excerbating the growing problem of drug resistance in India.
29 Mar 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.An article in the International Science Times overviews the antibiotic resistance problem, and links to CDDEP’s ResistanceMap visualization tool. [International Science Times]
22 Mar 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.A new visualization from a recent CDDEP paper illustrates the life cycle of the malaria parasite. [CDDEP]
15 Mar 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
15 Mar 2013
“How much did these cost?”
Faculty members of the School of Public Health at B.P. Koirala
Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) in Dahran, Nepal guessed a range of
prices—none very high, but the real price was the lowest: 5 Nepali rupees for 20 hand rolled
cigarettes. That’s .25 rupees each. In dollars—well, in cents—it’s something like
three or four for a penny. Even in the poorest
countries, a lot of people can afford to smoke them. Matches are probably more expensive.
