TY - JOUR
T1 - Strengthening public health supply chains in Ethiopia
T2 - PEPFAR-supported expansion of access and availability
AU - Taddesse, Daniel
AU - Jamieson, David
AU - Cochrane, Logan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2015/10/3
Y1 - 2015/10/3
N2 - When the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)-supported Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) programme began working in Ethiopia in 2006, the estimated population of people living with HIV exceeded one million, while only 24,000 were on treatment and only 50 treatment sites were in operation. SCMS and other key partners entered into this context to support the Ethiopian government in significantly strengthening the public health supply chain system, with the aim of increasing the availability and accessibility of pharmaceutical products. The country now has 1,047 treatment sites and is nearing complete treatment coverage. This article discusses how priorities were set among many competing challenges from 2006 until 2014, and how the four-step strategy of build, operate, transfer, and optimise has resulted in a successful partnership.
AB - When the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)-supported Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) programme began working in Ethiopia in 2006, the estimated population of people living with HIV exceeded one million, while only 24,000 were on treatment and only 50 treatment sites were in operation. SCMS and other key partners entered into this context to support the Ethiopian government in significantly strengthening the public health supply chain system, with the aim of increasing the availability and accessibility of pharmaceutical products. The country now has 1,047 treatment sites and is nearing complete treatment coverage. This article discusses how priorities were set among many competing challenges from 2006 until 2014, and how the four-step strategy of build, operate, transfer, and optimise has resulted in a successful partnership.
KW - Aid – Capacity development
KW - Civil society – Partnership
KW - HIV/AIDS and sexual health
KW - Methods
KW - Social sector – Health
KW - Sub-Saharan Africa
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84940908650
U2 - 10.1080/09614524.2015.1069794
DO - 10.1080/09614524.2015.1069794
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84940908650
SN - 0961-4524
VL - 25
SP - 1043
EP - 1056
JO - Development in Practice
JF - Development in Practice
IS - 7
ER -