Antivenom

Essential Scorpion Sting First Response by Jonathan Leeming

Introduction To The Challenges of Antivenom

There are been a lot of media exposure to the challenges of antivenom availability in Southern Africa. This page aims to offer insight, and update and resources that add clarity to the new developments in antivenom availability. It also offers an update into the availability of SAVP antivenom. This page will be updated periodically as the situation unfolds.

Within the context of Southern African, there are 3 different antivenom products.

South African Vaccine Producers - https://savp.nhls.ac.za
Premium Serums - https://www.premiumserums.com
Echitab - https://www.echitabplusicp.org

Each product has it's own characteristics, efficacy, guidelines, pros and cons.

The South African Vaccine Producers

https://savp.nhls.ac.za

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Premium Serums

https://www.premiumserums.com

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Dosage is based upon the SAVP dosage times 2.

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Echitab-ICP

https://www.echitabplusicp.org

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Two snakebite antivenoms have potential to reduce Eswatini’s dependency upon a single, increasingly unavailable product: Results of preclinical efficacy testing

Snakebite is a major public health concern in Eswatini, where treatment relies upon one antivenom—SAIMR Polyvalent. Although effective in treating snakebite, SAIMR Polyvalent is difficult to source outside its manufacturing country (South Africa) and is dauntingly expensive. We compared the ...

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