Panjasaram Naidoo PhD (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Professor Panjasaram Naidoo holds a PhD and serves as Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where he also completed his doctoral education. His research focuses on HIV/AIDS patient management and pharmaceutical care, exemplified by his most-cited publication examining challenges faced by HIV/AIDS patients in the eThekwini Metro of KwaZulu-Natal (2019). Professor Naidoo maintains extensive professional engagement through memberships in the International AIDS Society, the International Federation of Pharmacists, and the South African HIV Clinicians Society, and he is a Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa. His sustained involvement in clinical pharmacy organizations and community pharmacy sectors reflects a longstanding commitment to advancing pharmaceutical practice and HIV care in South Africa.

1. K.Suklal. P.Naidoo, Medication adherence behaviour of private sector patients afflicted with certain communicable and/or non-communicable diseases. PONTE  International Journal of Sciences and Research  2018; Vol. 74 | No. 7/1 | Jul 2018. DOI: 10.21506/j.ponte.2018.7.6
2. N.Misra, N. Padayatchi, P .Naidoo, Factors impacting on access to clofazimine in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa to support roll out of the updated 2016 drug resistant tuberculosis guidelines.  PONTE  International Journal of Sciences and Research  2017; Vol 73 No. 11.DOI: 10.21506/j.ponte.2017.11.24.---Supervisor
3. Pradnya V. Gandugade, Manimbulu Nlooto, Panjasaram Naidoo, Willingness and rationale of traditional health
4. practitioners to collaborate with Allopathic doctors in the eThekwini Metro of Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa
5. PULA: Botswana Journal of African Studies Vol 31, No 1, Supplement 1, 2017. Supervisor
6. Govender Y, Naidoo P, Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions and readiness of community pharmacists practicing in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, to the proposed National Health Insurance in South Africa . PULA: Botswana Journal of African Studies Vol. 31, No. 1, 2017 . Supervisor
7. Dlova NC, Naicker T, Naidoo P., Soaps and Cleansers for Atopic Eczema, Friends or Foes ?: What every South African Pediatrician Should Know about their pH", S Afr J Child Health 2017;11(3):146-148. DOI:10.7196/SAJCH.2017.v11i3.1325. Collaborator
8. Nlooto M, Naidoo P, Types of traditional, complementary and alternative medicines and reasons for their use by HIV infected patients in KwaZulu-Natal Province: a cross-sectional study . PULA: Botswana Journal of African Studies Vol. 31, No. 1, 2017 . Supervisor
9. Soorju V, Naidoo P. Confirmation of factors that influence antiretroviral regimen change and the subsequent patient outcomes at a Regional Hospital in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2016;8(1), a1171. http:// dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm. v8i1.1171. Supervisor
10. Mncengenli S, Nlooto M, Naidoo P, Concurrent use of Antiretroviral and African traditional medicines amongst people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA) in the eThekwini Metropolitan area of KwaZulu Natal, Afr Health Sci. 2016 Dec;16(4):1118-1130. doi: 10.4314/ahs.v16i4.30. Supervisor
11. Joubert MC, Naidoo P., Knowledge, Perceptions and Practices of Pharmacovigilance amongst community and hospital pharmacists in a selected district of North West Province, South Africa. Health SA Gesondheid , 2016 21  238-244: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hsag.2016.04.005 Supervisor
12. Nlooto M, Naidoo P, Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine use by HIV patients a decade after public sector antiretroviral therapy roll out in South Africa: A cross sectional study. BMC Complement Altern Med.  2016; 16:128. Published online 2016 May 17, doi: 10.1186/s12906-016-1101-5. Supervisor