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OCTOBER, 2018 | The HEALTH
linked to care and treatment. FIND will
demonstrate the feasibility of using rapid
diagnostic tests (RDTs) in decentralised
primary healthcare facilities and provide
technical assistance to the MOH to sup-
port the project.
All patients screened during the study
with World Health Organisation pre-
qualified diagnostic tests and confirmed
as having active HCV (viraemia) will be
linked to care. Treatment will be pro-
vided - either as part of an ongoing DNDi
clinical trial, which is co-sponsored by
MOH and designed to assess the efficacy
and safety of a new, alternative treatment
regimen combining sofosbuvir with the
investigational drug ravidasvir.
Results from the first stage of the
trial published in April show this drug
combination to be safe and effective with
extremely high cure rates for patients,
including hard-to-treat cases or by the
national HCV programme following
an ambitious treatment strategy to
overcome the prohibitively high cost
of HCV treatment in the country, now
offers free hepatitis C treatment (sofos-
buvir/daclatasvir) in 21 government
hospitals.
“We are delighted
to sign this
memorandum that will
enable IMU and NIH to
work closely together
and deepen our
cooperation on health
research and medical
education with the
single objective of
bringing both areas to
greater heights in the
country.”
– Professor Abdul Aziz
enhancing research activities in its cur-
riculum. The premier private medical
university has an extensive international
partnership with more than 20 estab-
lished world-renown universities across
the globe in providing world-class quality
education.
Via the collaboration, both parties
will look forward to working closely
together through joint appointments of
visiting professors and visiting scientists,
access to research and teaching resources
such as laboratory facilities, specialised
equipment and literatures, collaborative
research and human resource develop-
ment.
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(From left to right) Evelyn with
Continence Foundation Malaysia
president Dr Peter Ng at the
launching of the event.
One of BRACE 2018 participants checking the blood pressure of a local at their
mobile clinic.
CUCMS students
aid poor in Dhaka
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TENA’s
campaign
raises
awareness
on urinary
incontinence
Responding to the tragedy,
CUCMS’ students started collecting
information, conducting research
on the affected area and plan-
ning for the mission in December
2017. This annual mission focused
on providing health services,
medical care, education and welfare
support to the underprivileged
community.
BRACE 2018 advisor Associate
Professor Dr Mohamed Ikram
Mohamed Salleh emphasised that
rural community exposures like this
will help students understand better
their role as soon-to-be healthcare
professionals.
BRACE 2018 included medical
check-ups, health talks and provision
of basic living items for short-term
aid. Two of the long-term projects
were providing medical bill cover-
age for babies from poor families to
stay in incubators at the Paediatric
Department and the e