NIMR reaches over 1.4m under 5 children with Azithromycin treatment

The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research on Sunday announced a milestone in its Safety and Antimicrobial Resistance of Mass Administration of Azithromycin project, saying about 1.4 million children under the age of five have been administered with Azithromycin.

He said the Nigerian government believes that such studies should be tested and if it give the same result, it should be adopted. He said there was also the need to find out how the antimicrobial resistance behaves while mass administration of Azithromycin is on-going. He said the mass administration of the drugs showed an 18 per cent reduction in child mortality in studies conducted in Niger, Tanzania and the Benin Republic.

He said, “What are the side effects they reported? It is common for children who report the refusal of food because of the taste of the drug, some stewed, that’s just general.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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