Optimizing Treatment for Children in the Developing World

Foreword.- Shifting demographics and regional disparities.- Access issues.- Ending stockouts.- Improved formulations and optimal dosing.- Deficient and counterfeit products.- Knowledge gaps in pregnancy and lactation.- Factors enabling improved therapy.- Regulatory science.- Human resource planning.- Information and communications technology.- Pharmaceutical care.- Networks (GRIP, INRUD, MSH, PTN,MYCRN, IABMC).- Research challenges.- Research standards for clinical trials in low and middle income countries.- Innovative appropriate trial methods.- Nutrition/micronutrients.- Impact on therapeutic outcomes.- Drug safety and pharmaco-epidemiology.- Personalized treatment and Pharmacogenomics.- Neglected diseases.- Health outcomes and economics.- Enhanced industry engagement.- Incorporating social science perspectives.- Clinical settings.- Treatment in the community.- Treatment at the district hospital level.- Care of the critically ill child.- Palliative care and pain management. – Conclusion.- The light at the end of the tunnel: future directions.