2012 Strategy meeting on Medicine Stock Outs

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The Stop Stockouts Campaign team members are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya on February 7 and 8, 2012 to identify and prioritize advocacy opportunities to address medicine stock outs in Uganda, Kenya and Zambia, creating a concrete action plan for 2012. The campaign team will explore country case studies to gain an understanding of where we [...]

Factsheet: African Union commitments to essential medicines

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Download the African Union commitments to essential medicines factsheet here.

Factsheet: Essential Medicines

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Download the Essential medicines factsheet here

Factsheet: Prices + Availability Affect Access to Medicines

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Download the “Prices and availability affect access to Medicines” factsheet here.

Factsheet: Stockouts Factsheet 2009

Download the Stop Stockouts Factsheet (2009) here.

Access to Medicines – African Civil Society Role and Response

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Open Society Institute (OSI) Access to Essential Medicines Initiative hosted a regional meeting with all the ‘Stop the Stock-out Campaign’ partners, key African health and human rights groups, donors and other key partners in December 7 – 10, 2009 in Lusaka Zambia. The meeting was among other things to strategize on the next steps for [...]

Chiefs for Stop Stockouts

The pill-check dissemination meeting in Traditional Authority Mwambo in Zomba, The TA and his subjects were fired up to note that the there was rampant essential medicines stock outs coupled with Volunteers deployed at their health center were rude and that one time they caught a health worker diverting 17 tins of medicines to sell [...]

KENYA Stop Stockouts Team Hosts Health Civil Society

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The Kenya Stop Stock- Outs (SSO) team on the 4th of November 2009 hosted Health Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to a half day workshop in Nairobi. The workshop targeted all levels of health CSOs- from those working on policy issues those delivering services especially to the poor and vulnerable. All of the participants at the [...]

Kenya Stop Stockouts Team to Meet Health Civil Society

The Kenya Stop Stock- Outs (SSO) Team will on the 4th of November 2009 host Health Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to a half day workshop in Nairobi. The workshop targets all levels of health CSOs- from those working on policy influence to those delivering services especially to the poor and vulnerable. While majority of the [...]

Health watchdog starts nationwide probe

The New Vision reports that a Ugandian Health watchdog starts nationwide probe into medicine stockouts.