Ensure Equal Access to Medicine
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
The Kenyan team held a successful press conference on 30/06/09 with 22 journalists in attendance from various print, electronic and online media houses in the country. Patrick Mubangizi (HAI Africa), Emma Wanyonyi (CIN), David Musyoki (KEHPCA), and James Kamau (KETAM) spoke at the press conference while Eve Odette (OXFAM) moderated the event. The stock-out story [...]
The Kenyan team organised a successful public forum in Mombasa, the second largest city in Kenya, on June 23rd at the Mombasa Municipal Stadium. The public forum was intended to publicize the campaign and its objectives, to create public pressure for reforms within the Kenya Medical Supply Agency (KEMSA) and to publicize the SMS pill [...]
The Kenya ‘Stop- stock out’ campaign team is organizing two public forums to spread out the campaign message to the people on the ground as well as to create better awareness of stock outs and unavailability of essential medicines around the country. The public forums will be held on 23 June in the coastal city [...]
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