Background Azithromycin mass drug administration (MDA) to ages 1–59 months can reduce childhood mortality; however, more ...

The Government is conducting a trial of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin drugs on a coronavirus patient admitted at Aga Khan Hospital Intensive Care Unit. According to the Director General in the ...

Efforts to reduce child mortality in Africa via mass treatment with the antibiotic azithromycin (AZM) may lead to increased drug resistance in bacteria that frequently cause pneumonia and meningitis, ...

Community-wide distribution of azithromycin to both infants and children in Niger was effective in preventing deaths, but communities where only infants received the drug had no decrease in mortality, ...

Background.Scabies is a public health problem in many countries, with impetigo and its complications important consequences. Ivermectin based mass drug administration (MDA) reduces the prevalence of ...

Three clinical trials have examined the efficacy and safety of single dose azithromycin (30 mg/kg) in children with uncomplicated acute otitis media (AOM). In the first trial, a small pilot study, the ...