On October 16, SIAPS Program officially transferred administration of e-TB manager, a web-based TB information system, to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health (MoH). e-TB Manager was piloted in six Ukrainian oblasts in 2010 under SIAPS Program’s predecessor, the Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program, before a nationwide roll-out began in 2012. e-TB Manager is now an official information … Read more
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Drug safety and monitoring are key as bedaquiline donation program launches in Georgia
In April 2015, USAID and Janssen Therapeutics officially launched the bedaquiline donation initiative, under which Janssen committed to providing free bedaquiline to 30,000 patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) over a four-year period. Bedaquiline is the first anti-TB medicine to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in more than 40 years, and is … Read more
Pharmadex launches in Mozambique, streamlining medicines registration
On October 1, the Pharmacy Department within Mozambique’s Ministry of Health successfully launched Pharmadex—a major achievement, and a significant step toward making the country’s medicines registration system more effective and transparent. Pharmadex, a SIAPS-supported web-based tool, supports a more efficient medicines registration process by organizing and housing all relevant information needed for an application to … Read more
Inaugural Regional Health Managers Workshop for Improved Supply Chain Management of NTD Drugs in Ethiopia
Committed to the global fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), SIAPS Program has developed a three-day training workshop for national NTD program managers and their supply chain management counterparts. Through a series of regional workshops, SIAPS will contribute to increasing the capacity of program managers to manage donations or procurements during mass drug administration (MDA) … Read more
Nationwide roll-out of QuanTB in Uzbekistan
In September 2015, USAID’s Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) helped the Uzbek Ministry of Health (MOH) successfully complete a nationwide roll-out of QuanTB, a tuberculosis (TB) quantification tool. QuanTB is a downloadable desktop tool that transforms complicated calculations into a user-friendly dashboard displaying key information for managing medicines. By serving as … Read more
PMI Coordinator Visits SIAPS-DRC
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with one highest malaria incidence rates in the world, is a priority country for the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). PMI has played a major role in the country’s fight against malaria, having dedicated $50m toward eliminating the disease in DRC over the last five years. PMI Coordinator Rear … Read more
University of Kinshasa unveils DRC’s first-ever strategic plan for pharmacist training
On June 10, 2015, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FOPS) of the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) officially presented its first-ever strategic plan to the Ministry of Higher Education. The strategic plan lays out a FOPS curriculum for the 2016-2020 period, and was developed with the technical and financial assistance … Read more
SIAPS Publishes Manual on the Development and Implementation of Standard Treatment Guidelines
A new manual published by the USAID-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program aims to guide health care professionals in the development and implementation of standard treatment guidelines (STGs). STGs are designed to assist health care professionals in making decisions about appropriate, effective patient care. However, health managers often have trouble … Read more
The WHO Essential Medicines and Health Products Information Portal Survey
The World Health Organization Essential Medicines and Health Products (EMP) Information Portal supports efforts to improve access to essential medicines and health products by making nearly 5000 medicines and health products related, full-text articles from WHO, other UN partners, global NGOs, development agencies and their partners, countries and academics available online. The portal receives support … Read more
QuanTB to be presented at the 5th Union Conference for the Asia Pacific Region
SIAPS Program’s QuanTB software will be presented on August 31 as part of the 5th regional Conference of The Asia Pacific Region of the International Union Against TB & Lung Disease in Sydney, Australia. It will be discussed during the Global Drug Facility session “Global Drug Facility as a global mechanism for sustainable access to quality assured MDR-TB medicines”. QuanTB is … Read more
