Journal of Pharmacological Reports
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Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Biography

Dr Karen Cohen is a clinical pharmacologist and family physician in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town south africa
she leads a group focussing on a safety antiviral and anti tubucurial medicines.

Publications

• Editorial   
  Prevalence of HIV Setting, Emergency Room Visits for Adults Related to Adverse Drug Reactions
  Author(s): Karen Cohen*
  
  In South Africa, rapid scale-up of the HIV treatment programme is happening within already overstretched and regularly understaffed health care facilities [1]. While the anti retrovirals currently included in South African guidelines are generally safe, and high adverse drug reactions (ADRs) only occur during a small proportion of patients, the dimensions of the treatment programme means absolutely the ADR burden could also be considerable [2]. Strategies to attenuate preventable harm should form an important a part of such large-scale public health programmes; yet, in our setting, the burden of ADRs generally, and therefore the burden of ADRs attributable to antiretroviral therapy (ART) specifically, remains largely un-known... View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/jpr.21.5.113

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