The College of Health Sciences COVID-19 Response Committee will hold the weekly online virtual research session on 4th August, 2020.
Dr. Sylvia Opanga from the School of Pharmacy will make a presentation titled: Potential paucity and price increases of essential medicines and personal protective equipment for COVID-19 in developing countries with a focus on Africa
COVID -19, a trending issue of global concern, has turned people’s lives upside down occasioning a huge amount of change in the world today. COVID -19 has fundamentally altered certain aspects of everyday life across the globe. In other words, COVID -19 has in one way or another occasioned changes in the way we do things, it has occasioned culture change.
The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled alcohol-based hand sanitizers (ABHS) and face-masks to the forefront in the fight against the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). A closer look at the labels of ABHS products on the market, however, reveals that directions for use are either absent, ambiguous or incomplete. Only a few are satisfactory, raising the question as to whether they are being used properly. A recent study by the authors revealed that 32 % of samples did not have any user instructions at all (Nyamweya and Abuga, 2020).
