AEGiS-15IAC: Place of community pharmacy in improvement of observance of PLHA: case of community pharmacy of Ruban Rouge Cote d'Ivoire.

15th International AIDS Conference


Bangkok, Thailand - July 11-16, 2004

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Place of community pharmacy in improvement of observance of PLHA: case of community pharmacy of Ruban Rouge Cote d'Ivoire.

Int Conf AIDS 2004 Jul 11-16; 15:(abstract no. B10332)

Touhon MT
Centre Plus de Ruban Rouge Cote d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

ISSUE: To make it possible for PLHA to have access to the treatment, Ruban Rouge CI created the Center More in order to ensure a continuum of care of accessible and free quality. The CP has a Community pharmacy which delivers drugs free to the patients after medical consultation. Since November 2002, pharmacy is managed by a pharmacist and a manager of pharmacy.

DESCRIPTION:From November 2002 with December 2003, this pharmacy with given from the drugs free to more than 135 new patients, with for objective improving the health of patients and helping them to be observant in by providing information on the correct catch of drugs. The drugs are ordered near the private pharmaceutical wholesalers from Cote d'Ivoire. The patient after visit of the doctor of the CP receive a medical ordinance and arrives at pharmacy to receive the drugs available there. Learned lessons:Number of visits: 789 including 60,08% of woman and 39,92% of man. Numbers of visit of patients under HAART 122 including 67,21% of woman and 32,79% of man. 98% of the patients of the CP (516 patients are registered with the CP) are under strong Cotrimoxazole. Treatments given with council on use: strong cotrimoxazole (359); against malaria (289), antianemic (172), antihelminthic (125), antibiotic (148). Recommendation: This Community pharmacy is enough significant for the PLHA because it is a space of discussion with a pharmacist and follow-up of the observance. It especially makes it possible to the PLHA to have access to their treatment for the opportunist infections for free. It is an action which deserves to be perennialized in order to reduce the expenditure out of matters of drugs on the one hand and in health of another share allow all the PLHA to have access to the treatment of the opportunist Infections but also to have access to the HAART at cost reduces even for free.

Keywords: AEGIS, Pharmacies, Pharmacy, Pharmacists, Community Pharmacy Services, Education, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Preparations, Pharmacy Service, Hospital, Health Services Accessibility, Environment, Costs and Cost Analysis, Cote d'Ivoire, Humans, Female, Male, economics

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