Health commodity procurement & supply chain management
The Executive Committee of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition http://www.rhsupplies.org has welcomed Access Global ltd as an organizational member of the coalition and as a new partner in efforts to ensure that people in low and middle-income countries can obtain, choose and use high-quality reproductive health supplies. As an organization, we are delighted for being… Read More
When they wanted to scale up the use of lifesaving commodities, the Ministry of Health of Uganda supported by WHO contracted us to recommend on the establishment of a local infomediary for the priority life-saving commodities. This was achieved by conducting an operational review/assessment of current efforts to locally generate, analyze, and use data to… Read More
Stock outs of essential medicines are still experienced in half of the public sector health facilities in Uganda. Public health facilities in Uganda are categorized according to the level of care with level 2 and Hospital as the lowest and highest level respectively. A Ministry of Health report reveals that 47% of level 2 health… Read More
In order to improve women’s health worldwide 1) quantify the unmet need for maternal health medicines so manufacturers can adequately scale up to meet that need and cost estimates to achieve universal coverage can be calculated and 2) strengthen management information systems to ensure medicine availability and avoid stock outs but not too far in… Read More
The Uganda Demographic and Health Survey of 2011 estimated the Contraceptive Prevalence Rate to be 30%, the unmet need for Family Planning to be 34%, and the Total Fertility rate to be 6.2 in Uganda. This means that only 30% of women of reproductive age are using contraceptives while another 34% would wish to use… Read More
The Uganda budget framework paper 2014/15 states our national priorities as follows: 2.1 STRATEGIC BUDGET PRIORITIES FOR FINANCIAL YEAR 2014/15 2.1.1 Security and Defence 2.1.2 Infrastructure Development 2.1.3 Energy Infrastructure 2.1.4 Science, Technology and Innovation for Industrialization and Private Sector Competitiveness 2.1.5 Agricultural Production and Productivity 2.1.6 Tourism 2.1.7 Human Capital Development Education Health Water,… Read More
Hello, I recently got an opportunity to refresh my mind on the basics logistics management. My presentation: Introduction to Logistics Management – presentation to RHU field staff
According to WHO http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs194/en/, Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is resistance of a microorganism to an antimicrobial drug that was originally effective for treatment of infections caused by it. Resistant microorganisms (including bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites) are able to withstand attack by antimicrobial drugs, such as antibacterial drugs (e.g., antibiotics), antifungals, antivirals, and antimalarials, so that… Read More
Are you involved in any program that includes provision of commodities? Or is your business involved holding inventory? The principles of Procurement and supply management cut across but I will focus on the health sector for now. This could be pharmaceuticals, laboratory supplies, bed nets or any other commodity necessary in health care. At one… Read More
We lost our aunt early this year after a progression of cancer within 6 months. The explanation was that we took long to detect the cancer and therefore it was diagnosed at advanced stage. However, 6 months before the diagnosis our aunt had been given a clean bill that she was free of cancer after… Read More
