By Jane Briggs, Principal Technical Advisor More than 900,000 children die of pneumonia each year (more than malaria, measles, and HIV/AIDS combined), according to the World Health Organization. Many of these cases go undiagnosed and untreated. How can this be when we know what works? A five-day, twice-daily amoxicillin regimen—in either dispersible tablet (DT) or oral … Read more
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Improving Medication Adherence: It Takes a System
By Aubrey Clark, SIAPS Technical Advisor, and Mohan P. Joshi, SIAPS Principal Technical Advisor and Cluster Lead for Pharmaceutical Services “Medicines don’t work in patients who don’t take them.” – Former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop Today, medicines exist to treat many of the world’s most pressing health threats. Deaths from HIV/AIDS have fallen by … Read more
Systems-based Approaches to Improving Medication Adherence
With the shift from a disease landscape that focuses on the treatment of acute and short-term illnesses to one that faces an increasing burden of chronic diseases that may require life-long medicine use, the role of medicines in ensuring a healthy population is more important than ever. However,even when medicines are available, patients may not … Read more
New Approaches and Tools Help Protect Patient Safety, Increase Access to Quality Medicines in Ethiopia
The SIAPS team has helped the Ethiopian Food, Medicine, and Health Care Administration and Control Authority (FMHACA) and many health facilities in the country incorporate product quality reporting into its national adverse drug event (ADE) reporting system. This has proven to be an efficient and cost-effective measure to detect products with problems in quality and … Read more
SIAPS Trains Health Staff in Ethiopia to Use QuanTB to Manage TB Medicines
By Kelly Sawyer, Technical Associate – TB The SIAPS program, in collaboration with the Challenge TB project in Ethiopia, organized a national forecasting and quantification training on the QuanTB tool in September in Bishoftu town, Ethiopia. QuanTB, which SIAPS developed in 2013, is a downloadable electronic tool designed to improve Tuberculosis (TB) medicines procurement processes, ordering … Read more
SIAPS Activity and Product Status Report: Year 5, Quarter 4
This report presents highlights of SIAPS’ 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 2016 period.
SIAPS Activity and Product Status Report: Year 5, Quarter 3
This report presents highlights of SIAPS’ 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 April through June 2016 period.
SIAPS Activity and Product Status Report: Year 5, Quarter 2
This report presents highlights of SIAPS’ 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 January through March 2016 period.
SIAPS Supply Chain Management Training: Report
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) program, implemented by Management Sciences for Health, and its predecessor programs have provided technical assistance (TA) support to strengthen public health pharmaceutical management systems in countries around the world for about a decade and a half. A significant … Read more
SIAPS Annual Report: Program Year 4
To learn more about SIAPS program activities worldwide, please read our annual report for program year 4.
