WHO Toolkit Pregnant and breastfeeding women

8 August 2018

Stein Schalkwijk, Angela Colbers and David Burger of the department of Pharmacy developed the Toolkit “Pregnant and breastfeeding women” in cooperation with Mark Mirochnick (Boston University, MA, USA) as a part of “Toolkit for research and development of paediatric antiretroviral drugs and formulations”.

In 2016, an estimated 2.1 million children and 17.8 million women were living with HIV, and yet antiretroviral drug formulations for treating HIV among infants, children, adolescents and pregnant and breastfeeding women remain limited. Although well established legislative and regulatory frameworks support and stimulate the process of developing medicines for children, this process needs to be accelerated to ensure that much-needed antiretroviral formulations are available for children, especially those living in low- and middle-income countries.
 
This toolkit identifies the challenges and outlines possible solutions for promoting and accelerating timely and high-quality research and development of antiretroviral drug formulations suitable for infants, children, adolescents and pregnant and breastfeeding women. Although this toolkit focuses on HIV medicines, many of the principles outlined here can be applied to treatments for other diseases affecting pregnant women and children.
 
The toolkit can be found: https://globalhealthtrainingcentre.tghn.org/research-toolkit-paediatric-antiretroviral-drug-and-formulation-development/
Registration is free of charge.

This research is conducted within the theme Infectious diseases and global health.
 

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