The tiger mosquito is the one that transmits this tropical disease. Since August 23, 31 cases have been identified in the Alpes-Maritimes. An unprecedented situation in metropolitan France, taken very seriously by the Regional Health Agency. To break this spread, the ARS goes door-to-door. The objective is to recall the gestures of prevention. These investigations also make it possible to identify possible patients.
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In two years, the covid-19 pandemic has undermined the fight once morest cancer in Europe. This is why the European Commission is proposing a new initiative to strengthen prevention, detection and treatment. It recommends that Member States increase the number of screenings and open up the target groups more.
For the institution there is urgency. In 2020, six types of cancer including breast, cervical and colorectal cancer accounted for 51% of disease-related deaths in the European Union. To overcome the disease, the Commission proposes by 2025 the screening of 90 % of persons fulfilling the conditions for these examinations.
The European Commissioner for Health adds that the Union is ready to commit 100 million euros to better detect the disease.
“Screening programs are fundamental for this, because early diagnosis saves lives. And we are all working together for this. These are recommendations gathered from the latest scientific data”, insists Stella Kyriakides.
For patients, better screening and detection plans are long overdue as there are significant gaps between member countries.
“This is a very important objective because for lung cancer there have been many barriers for a long time. All countries have enormous delays in screening”, underlines Francesco De Lorenzo, president of the European Cancer Patient Coalition.
The Commission’s strategy wants expand targeted screening to other cancers, including prostate, lung and stomach.
The Bank of Special Drugs will reach 5,000 patients without private coverage | Public politics
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The Bank of Special Drugs will reach this year 5,000 patients with exclusive public coveragewith a total investment of 1,700 million pesosy will deliver medicines to carry out more than 23,000 treatmentsreported today the Ministry of Health.
The Minister of Health, Carla Vizzottiled a tour of the facilities of the Andreani company’s logistics operations plant for pharmaceutical products, where pharmaceutical products are received and distributed supplies from the Bank of Special Drugs that are sent to the 24 jurisdictions to promote access to oncology drugs for part of the population of patients with exclusive public coverage.
The minister highlighted the effectiveness of the articulated work and focused on the importance of “having this stock of oncology drugs and with the award levels of Remediar”.
The program will have an investment of 1,700 million pesos and medicines will be delivered to assist more than 5,000 patients.
The strategy of the Space Drug Bank acts in a complementary manner to the jurisdictional coverage, with the strict purpose of equalizing the standards of health care and thus achieving greater equity in access to cancer drugs throughout the national territory.
The strategy is implemented according to the List of Complementary Oncology Medications defined by ministerial resolution, adapting purchases to the availability of each medication and compliance with the stipulated requirements.
In this framework, during the visit it was detailed that from next July the medicines acquired as a result of the International Public Tender will enter, with which the stock of the Bank of Special Drugs will be recovered and the same will be guaranteed for 18 months, they specified from the portfolio of health.
In addition, it was reported that the processes for the exclusive purchase of the following drugs are under way: cetuximab, enzalutamide, nivolumab, panitumumab, pertuzumab, trastuzumab, tretinoin, nilotinib, anti-lymphocyte immunoglobulin, pegylated asparaginase, rasburicase, and octreotide.
The meeting was also attended by the Undersecretary of Medicines and Strategic Information, Natalia Grinblat; the national director of Medicines and Health Technology, Emiliano Melero; the coordinator of the Bank of Special Drugs, Nicolás Chiarante; and the Logistics Coordinator of the Secretariat for Access to Health, Juan Pablo Saulle.
Stimulated by high heat and humidity, mosquitoes proliferate. In May 2022, we filmed a prevention operation in Meyzieu. We went back this Wednesday and it’s still the same problem. Faced with the fed up of the inhabitants, the town hall offers solutions. As Robert Pellarini, the deputy mayor, explained to us, it subsidized the purchase of mosquito traps for individuals in 2021. And in 2022, it put them in the buildings of the municipality.