The Procurement and Supply Chain Strengthening Project: Improving Public Health Supply Chains for Better access to HIV Medicines, Uganda 2011–2016
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2022
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice
Abstract
With countries moving towards reaching the UNAIDS 90-90-90 goal to achieve HIV epidemic control, there are going to be an unprecedented number of persons who will need to be tested, treated, and regularly monitored for viral suppression. However, most of the countries with the greatest burden of HIV/AIDS experience regular stock outages which could be detrimental to reaching these targets. ART and other commodities such as HIV test kits and laboratory supplies need to be readily and consistently available to achieve these targets. The main objective was to improve access to HIV/AIDS related commodities and strengthening institutional capacity for the management of HIV/AIDS logistics services through the MAUL procurement and supply chain strengthening project (PSSP) that rolled out four interventions on mentorship and support supervision, stock level monitoring, spatial visualization of stock indicators using GIS, and using WhatsApp to submit order reports as photo images.
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HIV, Supply chain, Stock-outs, Stock management
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Muyingo, S., Etoori, D., Lotay, P., Malamba, S., Olweny, J., Keesler, K., ... & Settaala, R. (2022). The procurement and supply chain strengthening project: improving public health supply chains for better access to HIV medicines, Uganda 2011–2016. Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 15(1), 72.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40545-022-00467-3