International Association of Public Health Logisiticians
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Author: Accenture, Geoff Deines
Technical area: Human resources, Private sector
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This report summarizes the findings and recommendations from an exercise to improve tracking of financing for subsidized contraceptives and other reproductive health commodities in Uganda.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area: Forecasting and supply planning, M&E
Document type: Country reports, Technical briefs
Language: English
This report assess the global public health implications of falsified, substandard, and counterfeit pharmaceuticals in an attempt to help jumpstart international discourse about this problem. In addition it lays out a plan to invest in quality medications to improve public health outcomes and eliminate the burden of falsified and substandard... Read more
Author: Gillian J. Buckley, Lawrence O. Gostin
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This brief describes, vendor managed inventory (VMI), a method of inventory control in supply chains that may hold promise for use in developing countries. With VMI, the supplier (vendor) monitors and maintains the quantity of commodities at the customers’ location.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This document describes a logistics management unit, how it can be structured, the reasons for advocacy, and suggestions on how to begin. Also included are illustrations using country examples.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: French
This artcile outlines the other drug war, the war of counterfeit medication. Whether it’s phony Viagra or knockoff cancer meds, fake drugs kill thousands of people each day, thanks to counterfeiters in China and India who mix chalk, dust, and dirty water into pills sold around the world. With the... Read more
Author: Foreign Policy, Roger Bate
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This report presents the findings of the previously conducted assessment of the the procedures for supplying community health workers with malaria products and the proposed resupply procedures to use when distributing products within Zimbabwe.... Read more
Author: Naomi Printz, Theresa Nyamupachitu, USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area:
Document type: Country reports, Technical briefs
Language: English
This brief details how improved supervision can strengthen health care delivery systems and enhance the quality of immunization programs by focusing on the evolution, progress, results, and lessons learned from supportive supervision in Jharkhand.... Read more
Author: IMMUNIZATION Basics
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
These case studies illustrate the challenges, and opportunities, of implementing supply chain integration.... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English
This brief describes the situations where long- and short-term malaria supply chain augmentation measures, that range from enhancing existing systems to implementing entire parallel systems, are required. Augmentation enhances logistics by providing extra resources to meet operational requirements, however, it is often beyond the scope of what the host government... Read more
Author: USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Technical area:
Document type: Technical briefs
Language: English