To learn more about SIAPS program activities worldwide, please read our annual report for program year 6.
SIAPS Annual Report: Program Year 6
End of Project Report: Amazon Malaria Initiative
Project dates: January 2012 – September 2017
The Antimicrobial Resistance Challenge: No Room for Complacency
A presentation by Mohan P. Joshi, Principal Technical Advisor and Lead for Pharmaceutical Services, SIAPS, at USAID in Arlington, VA on November 9 2017.
Combating Antimicrobial Resistance with Stronger Health Systems
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the world’s most pressing and urgent global health threats —one that could erode gains against tuberculosis (TB), malaria, HIV/AIDS, and many other infectious diseases. While AMR has emerged as a critical issue at the global level, current efforts to address AMR are insufficient to curb its spread. Immediate, cross-cutting, and … Read more
National Reproductive Health Commodities Forecasting Bangladesh 2017-2021
In 2012, SIAPS supported the Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP) in conducting a five-year (2012-2016) forecasting exercise for reproductive health commodities and built the technical capacity of DGFP officials to manage the forecasting processes and analyze the FP2020 indicators pertinent to stock availability. SIAPS also assisted DGFP in forming the multi-stakeholder Forecasting Working Group (FWG) … Read more
SIAPS Activity and Product Status Report: Year 6, Quarter 4
This report presents highlights of SIAPS’s activities organized both by intermediate result area, representing multiple countries where we work, as well as by our global, regional, and country portfolios for the July through September 2017 period.
Swaziland Medicine Safety Watch
Inside this issue: Pharmacovigilance in Swaziland Update on 2016-2017 Spontaneous Reporting Systems Medicine Safety Alerts How to Report an ADE
Strengthening Governance in Procurement in Bangladesh
Despite being one of the most densely populated countries in the world, the overall health in Bangladesh has steadily improved over the last 30 years. While the Government of Bangladesh’s efforts have resulted in impressive gains in public health, weaknesses in pharmaceutical management, including logistics and supplies, infrastructure, and the low performance of health care providers, … Read more
Developing Better Terms of Reference to Improve the Performance of Pharmaceutical Sector Committees: Case Studies from South Africa
In South Africa, there are numerous governance structures that make crucial decisions about selection, procurement, distribution, and use of medicines, diagnostics, and other pharmaceutical products. A challenge commonly encountered is that critical committees either do not exist or where the committee is in place, it does not function optimally. One of the most underlying causes … Read more
Inventory of Key USAID and Global AMR-related System Strengthening Resources/Interventions
This inventory is a selected list of resources and interventions that support antimicrobial resistance (AMR) containment. The objective of this inventory is to provide a list of key resources, tools, and interventions that create or strengthen systems that are necessary to improve antimicrobial use and AMR containment. Along with the full references, links are provided directly … Read more
