Objectives:

Promote the rational use of medicines;
Improve equitable access and availability of essential medicines;
Promote access to the Standard Treatment Guidelines (STGs) and Essential Medicines List (EML);
Improve the development, management, awareness and uptake of the STGs and EML; and
Expand the stakeholder database and develop lessons learnt to improve communication.

Questions/key issues to be covered:

Access the STGs and EML
Medicine administration through the intrathecal route
Morphine Solution Formulation – what’s new?
Amphotericin B - deoxycholate and liposomal usage

Speakers:

Ms Olwethu Mambinja  
Pharmaceutical Policy Specialist
Essential Drugs Programme

Dr Andrew Lofts Gray
Senior Lecturer: Division of Pharmacology, UKZN
Consultant Pharmacist: CAPRISA
Visiting Fellow: Rhodes University
Associate Editor: South African Pharmaceutical Journal

Professor Malcolm Miller  
Associate Professor
Senior Specialist: Anaesthesia and Critical Care
Groote Schuur Hospital

Dr Gayle Tatz
Registrar: Clinical Pharmacology

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