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Join Our Newsletter - Get important industry news and analysis sent to your inbox – sign up to our e-Newsletter hereX ANALYSIS Ivermectin and Covid-19: how a cheap antiparasitic became political By Darcy Jimenez19 Apr 2021 (Last Updated April 19th, 2021 17:22) The common antiparasitic ivermectin is being touted as a miracle cure for Covid-19…
Ivermectin lobby groups have welcomed the regulatorâs decision to allow compassionate controlled access to the drug as a step in the right direction but have raised concern that it does not go far enough to make the drug easily accessible2020. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP)
Doctors âcautiously optimisticâ about regulatorâs decision on Ivermectin to treat Covid-19
By Lyse Comins
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Durban - Doctors and scientists who have been lobbying the government to allow the universal use of ivermectin as a prophylaxis and treatment for Covid-19 say they are âcautiously optimisticâ about the SA Health Products Regulatory Authorityâs (Sahpra) decision to permit âcompassionate, controlledâ access to the drug.
Ivermectin lobby groups have welcomed the regulator’s decision to allow compassionate controlled access to the drug as a step in the right direction but have raised concern that it does not go far enough to make the drug easily accessible2020. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP)
HARARE, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe has approved the use and import of the anti-parasite drug Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 patients.
“In these difficult times of COVID-19 treatment, we have to be careful to protect patients as well as not to deny them effective treatment regimes,” said a statement by the Health Ministry addressed to the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ).