A week to check stock outs of essential medicines
June 4, 2009 by StopStockouts
Stop stock-outs campaign partners will from Monday 22 to Friday 26 June 2009 visit public health institutions to survey the stock-out of essential medicines in five African countries.
The week dubbed ‘pill check week’ will involve each country team visiting government health facilities in their countries and using a list of 10 essential medicines, check for what is in stock and what is stocked out.
The teams will then report back the results through short messaging services (SMS) to a common site, and the data will be reflected visually in an online mapping of the region that will show areas where medication is stocked out in each of the five countries involved in the campaign. The results will be made available on the regional campaign website www.stopstockputs.org. These findings of this exciting and innovative project will be used by the campaign partners to urge governments to honour their commitments to provide essential medicines for all.
