BHB offers an 80-hour refresher training course on GPP to the country’s medicine dispensers who meet certain basic criteria. FCDO provides financial support for this training; 11,577 medicine dispensers have received the refresher training, and an additional 2,500 will be trained by the end of 2023. BHB commissioned ICDDR,B to assess the effects of the dispenser training on their attitudes and GPP knowledge and practice.
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Frontiers in Pharmacology published a research report on this study in its 12 July 2023 issue. In this case-control study, researchers enrolled 220 GPP-trained dispensers and 220 dispensers who did not receive GGP training using a semi-structured questionnaire and observation checklists. The results showed that GPP-trained participants had better knowledge of dispensing guidelines, medicine storage conditions, and medicine labelling. Their dispensing practices were also superior to the control group, particularly in areas like customer counselling and maintaining proper storage temperature. The study concluded that while its initial GPP training is beneficial, periodic retraining is essential to sustain overall pharmacy practices in the country.
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