The availability and quality of HIV commodity, including antiretrovirals and HIV test kits, increases the demand for HIV care services and enables the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy. In West Africa and Central Africa, stock-outs often occurred because of poor coordination and information sharing among partners and lack of a reliable early warning system. With funding … Read more
USAID’s West African office asked SIAPS to provide support to six countries in the West and Central African region—Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Guinea, Niger, and Togo—to establish a web-based regional dashboard (OSPSIDA.org) that will create an early warning system (EWS) to monitor HIV and AIDS commodities and to detect and minimize the risk of stock-out … Read more
Alerts on stock-outs of lifesaving antiretrovirals emerged in a number of countries in the West African region in 2012 and 2013. Several root causes for this have been identified, including a lack of tools to improve the sharing of HIV and AIDS commodity information among stakeholders for faster decision making. This greatly affects the ability … Read more
A strong pharmaceutical management system is critical for responding to and preventing public health emergencies. The US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program, implemented by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), is helping four countries affected by Ebola—Sierra Leone, Guinea, Mali, and Benin—recover and rebuild essential drug … Read more
This technical highlight describes promising practices in assessing, designing, and implementing a LMIS based on SIAPS Program’s experience. The promising practices are supported by case examples of LMIS implementation from Bangladesh, Swaziland, and West Africa.
Working closely with the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) in both Washington and PMI- focus countries, the US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program aims to ensure the availability of quality pharmaceutical products and effective pharmaceutical services in support of PMI objectives. To this end, and based … Read more
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1 malaria mortality rates fell by 47% globally, and by 54% in Africa between 2000 and 2013. During this period, an estimated 4.3 million malaria deaths were averted globally, primarily as a result of the scale-up of interventions. However, much remains to be done. Although 55 countries are … Read more
According to the 2013 World Malaria Report,1 malaria incidence was reduced by about 31% and mortality rates by 49%in the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region between 2000 and 2012. These substantial reductions occurred as a result of a major scale-up of vector control interventions, diagnostic testing, and treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). However, … Read more
Le PNLP se situe dans un contexte marqué par la présence de plusieurs défis : Absence de données fiables sur le nombre de cas de paludisme et la quantité d’intrants antipaludiques utilisés par les structures sanitaires; Difficultés d’estimation des besoins et de planification pour le réapprovisionnement des structures en produits; Nombreuses ruptures de stock de … Read more
During the past fiscal year (FY 2013), the SIAPS Guinea team and its Ministry of Health partners (National Malaria Control Program [PNLP], Central Pharmacy of Guinea [PCG], National Medicines Regulatory Authority [DNPL], Bureau for Health Strategy and Development/National Health Information System [BSD/SNIS], Regional/District Health Authorities, and health facility agents) accelerated activities related to all four … Read more
