In this issue: CAFO’s Future Brightens After Successful Implementation of OVC Grant Capacitating Pharmacy Staff in Using the Electronic Dispensing Tool for Improved Antiretroviral Therapy Services Improved Skills and Stronger Organizational Capacity of Tonata to Deliver services to PLHIV Enhancing the Skills of Central Medical Stores Staff in Supply Chain Data Analysis and Visualization Strengthening Regional Management Teams’ Oversight of Accountability for Pharmaceuticals
To promote a systems-strengthening approach to TB medicines management, the USAID-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program developed QuanTB—a downloadable, desktop tool that transforms complicated calculations into a user-friendly dashboard displaying key quantification and supply planning information. By alerting users to risks of stock outs, QuanTB operates as an early warning … Read more
In the Republic of Namibia, the Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) program receives funding from the US Government to provide technical guidance for the development and implementation of innovative strategies and programs to strengthen pharmaceutical systems in support of the HIV/AIDS program. SIAPS is collaborating with USAID/Namibia to ensure the availability … Read more
SIAPS and its predecessor projects—Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) and Rational Pharmaceutical Management (RPM) Plus—have worked extensively to introduce and support tools that capture dispensing and supply chain data from public health facilities. SIAPS supports the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) to conduct periodic analyses of antiretroviral therapy (ART) data by using available data … Read more
The USAID-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) program, implemented by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) works in Bangladesh to improve the availability of quality medicines and effective pharmaceutical services through a pharmaceutical systems strengthening approach to ultimately improve health outcomes.
SIAPS helps partners and national-level staff members build their capacity to conduct efficient quantification and supply planning. Since multiyear forecasts make it easier to advocate for resources to ensure commodity security, the program helps to set up coordination mechanisms for in-country stakeholders to estimate medium- to long-term needs, while determining funding gaps and procurement costs. … Read more
The US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded program, Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS), implemented by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), has been providing technical assistance to the Angola Ministry of Health (MOH) to improve pharmaceutical management since 2011. An analysis of the Angolan public health supply chain system conducted in November/December … Read more
The Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program convened a consultative meeting of its partners to identify definitions of a pharmaceutical system and pharmaceutical systems strengthening and components to be included in a measurement framework for systems strengthening. The meeting held on September 11-12, 2014, brought together SIAPS core and resource partners, … Read more
Irrational use of medicines has been a major public health problem, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global public health and economic threat. AMR has been on the agenda of the annual World Health Assembly meetings. The Food, Medicine, and Health Care Administration and Control Authority (FMHACA) of Ethiopia with technical assistance from SIAPS and … Read more
SIAPS supported the University of Namibia School of Medicine (UNAM-SOM) to facilitate a continuing professional development (CPD) activity with health practitioners and regional management teams in Namibia’s Ohangwena region on strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR), including HIV drug resistance (HIV-DR), and the use of early warning indicators (EWI) for early detection and action. The … Read more
