ArticleEpidemiology and psychiatric sciences2022
Calling for policy actions to increase access to long-acting antipsychotics in low-income and middle-income countries.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Haloperidol (oral) versus olanzapine (oral) for people with schizophrenia and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Assessment of psychotropic medicines utilization patterns for the treatment of mental and neurological disorders in Public Hospitals of Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia: A record-based study.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Combination of Two Long-Acting Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Ground-breaking change to the mental health section of the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines: implications for low- and middle-income countries.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2024Article
- Voluntary licensing of long-acting HIV prevention and treatment regimens: using a proven collaboration- and competition-based mechanism to rapidly expand at-scale, sustainable, quality-assured and affordable supplies in LMICs.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Article
- Clinical trajectories of individuals with severe mental illness continuing and discontinuing long-acting antipsychotics: a one-year mirror-image analysis from the STAR Network Depot study.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are associated with substantial impairment and disability. Lack of treatment adherence is a major issue, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite growing evidence supporting second-generation long-acting antipsychotics (LAIs) as an effective strategy to ensure continued maintenance treatment in schizophrenia, access to these technologies has been very limited in constrained-resource settings. Including second-generation LAIs in national and international essential medicines lists and evidence-based guidelines, promoting public health-oriented patent pooling and extending their availability to primary health care settings, are key actions that should urgently be implemented to increase access to long-acting technologies. Implementing these policy actions can pragmatically improve treatment adherence, ultimately tackling schizophrenia-related impairment and disability in LMICs, which can be regarded as a global health priority.
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