Ensure Equal Access to Medicine
During ‘pill check week’, researchers visited public health institutions countrywide and checked on the availability of a list of 10 essential medicines. These are medicines that should be readily available in public health facilities. Using innovative technology, the team then reported the results through short messaging services (SMS) to a common site, and the data [...]
Officially opening the AEM Sensitisation workshop in Zimbabwe, is the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Child Welfare (Dr. G. Gwinji) The Chairperson of the National Drugs and Therapeutics Advisory Committee of Zimbabwe (NDTAC) Dr. Chiratidzo Ndhlovu stresses a point during the workshop. Sharing notes: The Stop Stock Outs Campaign Coordinator for Zimbabwe (Tafadzwa Chigariro) [...]
Zimbabwe successfully launched the Stop Stock-Outs Campaign on Thursday 17 September 2009 at a highly attended workshop. The campaign is part of a regional movement that aims to ensure access to essential medicines for all. Affected communities, civil society, media, government and the pharmaceutical industry attending the workshop agreed that stock-outs of essential medicines, particularly [...]
“Dorothy”, who prefers not to use her real name, is a nurse at a public health facility in Kisumu, Kenya. She feels that stock-outs are dangerous in that a doctor never knows for sure if a patient has been taking their prescribed medicine which makes treating their condition even more complicated. She spoke at the [...]
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