Global Presence

The East African Drug Seller Initiative (EADSI) is a three-year initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focused on creating a sustainable model to replicate and scale‐up private‐sector drug seller initiatives in developing countries that will ultimately operate independent of donor support. It builds on MSH’s Strategies for Enhancing Access to Medicines (SEAM) program which successfully established the accredited drug dispensing outlet (ADDO) program in collaboration with the government of Tanzania.

The initiative’s goals include:

• Developing a regional strategy to support the implementation of a stainable private-sector drug seller initiatives.
• Strengthening the Tanzania ADDO model to facilitate scaling up and sustainability.
• Developing a plan to replicate the ADDO model to scale in a second East African country (Uganda) and demonstrating the adapted model in one district (Kibale).
• Creating and disseminating an ADDO “tool kit” to facilitate adoption and adaptation of the approach by other countries.

The EADSI project in Uganda recently celebrated the launch of Accredited Dispensing Outlets in the western district of Kibaale.