Guidelines for the Storage of Essential Medicines and Other Health Commodities

This guide is a practical reference for those managing or involved in setting up a storeroom or warehouse. It contains written directions and clear illustrations on receiving and arranging commodities; special storage conditions; tracking commodities; maintaining the quality of the products; constructing and designing a medical store; and waste management;... Read more

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Guidelines for Managing the Malaria Supply Chain: A Companion to the Logistics Handbook

A practical guidebook on supply chain management with an emphasis on antimalarial health products. The text should be helpful to program managers who design, manage, and assess logistics systems for malaria programs. Policy makers, system stakeholders, and others whose jobs relate to antimalarial product supply chains will also find this... Read more

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Supervision and On-the-Job Training for Supply Chain Management at the Health Facility

These supervision guidelines serve as a resource for both supervisors and supervisees in how to prepare for a supervision visit, what to expect during a visit, and what follow-up actions should be taken post-visit. A sample supervision checklist complete with job aids provides county programs with ready-to-use guidelines that can... Read more

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Model guidance for the storage and transport of time- and temperature- sensative pharmaceutical products

These WHO guidelines set out the principal requirements for the safe storage and distribution of time and temperature-sensative pharmaceutical products (TTSPPs). The target audience includes regulators, logisticians, and pharmaceutical professionals in industry, government, and international agencies. WHO Technical Report Series, No.961, 2011, Annex 9... Read more

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