Antiretroviral adverse drug reactions pharmacovigilance in Harare City, Zimbabwe, 2017.
Hamufare Dumisani MugauriMufuta TshimangaOwen MugurungiTsitsi Patience JuruNotion GombeGerald ShambiraPublished in: PloS one (2018)
The pharmacovigilance system was useful, simple, and acceptable despite being unstable, not representative and not sensitive. It was threatened by suboptimal health worker knowledge, weak detection strategies and referral policy preventing ARV ADR identification by person place and time. Revisiting local policy, advocacy, communication and health worker orientation might improve pharmacovigilance performance in Harare city.
Keyphrases
- adverse drug
- healthcare
- public health
- mental health
- electronic health record
- emergency department
- drug induced
- health information
- primary care
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv infected
- cross sectional
- health promotion
- hiv positive
- hepatitis c virus
- climate change
- men who have sex with men
- social media
- label free
- hiv infected patients
- real time pcr
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv testing