Antiretroviral adverse drug reactions pharmacovigilance in Harare City, Zimbabwe, 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Key to pharmacovigilance is spontaneously reporting all Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) during post-market surveillance. This facilitates the identification and evaluation of previously unreported ADR's, acknowledging the trade-off between benefits and potential harm of medications. Only 41% Antiretroviral (ARV) ADR's documented in Harare city clinical records for January to December 2016 were reported to Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ). We investigated reasons contributing to underreporting of ARV ADR's in Harare city.

Methods

A descriptive cross-sectional study and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guided surveillance evaluation was conducted. Two hospitals were purposively included. Seventeen health facilities and 52 health workers were random

SUBMITTER: Mugauri H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6300272 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature