Table 2. Unregistered antimicrobial medicines on the essential medicines list according to type of antimicrobial and antibiotic class, Kenya, Uganda and United Republic of Tanzania, 2018.
| Antimicrobial | Kenya |
Uganda |
United Republic of Tanzania |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antimicrobials on list, no. | Unregistered, no. (%) | Antimicrobials on list, no. | Unregistered, no. (%) | Antimicrobials on list, no. | Unregistered, no. (%) | |||
| Antibiotics | ||||||||
| Macrolides | 3 | 0 (0.0) | 3 | 0 (0.0) | 4 | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Penems and carbapenems | 2 | 0 (0.0) | 2 | 0 (0.0) | 2 | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Penicillins | 10 | 1 (10.0) | 12 | 1 (8.3) | 18 | 5 (27.8) | ||
| Aminoglycosides | 4 | 0 (0.0) | 9 | 2 (22.2) | 8 | 0 (0.0) | ||
| First-generation cephalosporins | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 3 | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Second-generation cephalosporins | 0 | 0 (0.0) | 2 | 1 (50.0) | 1 | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Third-generation cephalosporins | 5 | 1 (20.0) | 2 | 0 (0.0) | 8 | 2 (25.0) | ||
| Fourth-generation cephalosporins | 0 | 0 (0.0) | 0 | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Tetracyclines | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 4 | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Quinolones and fluoroquinolones | 5 | 1 (20.0) | 5 | 0 (0.0) | 6 | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Combinations of different classes of antibiotic | 6 | 2 (33.3) | 7 | 2 (28.6) | 3 | 1 (33.3) | ||
| Other antibiotics | 12 | 2 (16.7) | 15 | 2 (13.3) | 19 | 7 (36.8) | ||
| Subtotal | 49 | 7 (14.3) | 62 | 8 (12.9) | 74 | 16 (21.6) | ||
| Antiparasitics | 14 | 5 (35.7) | 19 | 11 (57.9) | 16 | 5 (31.3) | ||
| Antivirals | 48 | 13 (27.1) | 42 | 11 (26.2) | 40 | 11 (27.5) | ||
| Antimalarials | 9 | 1 (11.1) | 12 | 1 (8.3) | 8 | 2 (25.0) | ||
| Antimycobacterials | 28 | 7 (25.0) | 30 | 12 (40.0) | 25 | 14 (56.0) | ||
| Antifungals | 9 | 0 (0.0) | 21 | 7 (33.3) | 18 | 4 (22.2) | ||
| Combinationsa | 0 | 0 (0.0) | 0 | 0 (0.0) | 0 | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Otherb | 2 | 0 (0.0) | 1 | 0 (0.0) | 0 | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Total | 159 | 33 (20.6) | 187 | 50 (26.7) | 182 | 52 (28.6) | ||
a Combinations contain two or more different antimicrobial agents.
b Other is antimicrobials that target more than one type of microorganism.