Kenya
Amid widespread economic and political reforms Kenya has established a significant leadership role in East Africa. Although Kenya has emerged as a vital contributor to the economic growth and political stability of the region, communities still lack the means to sustain the fight against infectious diseases, maternal and infant mortality, malnutrition, and anemia. The root of the problem is not necessarily a lack of human or material resources but inefficient health care delivery systems and a lack of the safe work environments and incentives that would promote the retention of a skilled, passionate health care workforce.
MSH has a longstanding commitment to Kenya and a local staff that has worked with a host of Kenyan organizations, both public and private, in the effort to confront challenges at their source. Since the early 1990s, MSH partnerships and programs have increased the availability of health supplies, medicine, vaccines, and laboratory equipment in communities throughout Kenya. The development of strong, decentralized supply chains have been a crucial first step, while supporting and strengthening leadership and management at the national level remains one of the primary goals for initiatives in Kenya. MSH aims to further reinforce the pharmaceutical and laboratory systems throughout the country and plans to train, deploy, and retain the nurses, clinicians, laboratory technicians, and pharmacy specialists that will ensure a professional, sustainable workforce.
Experience in this Country
- Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program 2007–2012
- Supply Chain Management System Project 2006–2008
- International Network for Rational Use of Drugs Initiative on Adherence to Antiretrovirals (INRUD-IAA) 2006–2011
- Leadership, Management and Sustainability (LMS) Program 2005–2010
- Extending Service Delivery (ESD) for Reproductive Health and Family Planning 2005–2010
- Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus Program 2000–2008
- Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS) 1999–2009
Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program
2007–2012Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems is a follow-on to the Rational Pharmaceutical Management (RPM) Plus Program. MSH is pleased to announce that the US Agency for International Development has awarded us the Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement. SPS will focus on four key results:
- Improve governance in the pharmaceutical sector
- Strengthen pharmaceutical management systems to support public health services
- Contain the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance
- Expand access to and improved use of essential medicines
- BroadReach Healthcare
- Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network
- The Lewin Group
- LMI Government Consulting
- University of Washington Department of Global Health
- WHO Collaborating Center in Pharmaceutical Policy: Harvard University/Boston University
- African Medical and Research Foundation
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
- Euro Health Group
- Infectious Disease Institute at Makerere University
- Joint Commission International
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Supply Chain Management System Project
2006–2008SCMS (the Supply Chain Management System) supplies lifesaving medicines to HIV & AIDS programs around the world and is led by the Partnership for Supply Chain Management (a nonprofit organization established by MSH and JSI). The 17 SCMS international partners are hands-on and actively work to strengthen supply chains, enabling the scale-up of HIV & AIDS treatment in developing countries.
SCMS is funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to help deliver an uninterrupted supply of high-quality, affordable products including: antiretroviral drugs; drugs to treat opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis; and drugs and supplies for palliative and home-based care, HIV rapid test kits, and laboratory equipment. The project focuses on improving forecasting (to determine what drugs are really needed), aggregating demand and negotiating lower prices, and bringing the delivery mechanism closer to the point of use through regional warehouses. SCMS can work anywhere in the world, but is initially focused on the 15 Emergency Plan focus countries.
International Network for Rational Use of Drugs Initiative on Adherence to Antiretrovirals (INRUD-IAA)
2006–2011The International Network for Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD) was established in 1989 to design, test, and disseminate effective strategies to improve the way drugs are prescribed, dispensed, and used, with a particular emphasis on resource poor countries.
Launched in September 2006, the INRUD-IAA initiative is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. The objectives of the five-year initiative are to—
- Develop and validate a set of indicators that can be used to monitor adherence to ART
- Investigate adherence rates and determinants for these rates for ART programs and individuals in two target countries
- Pilot interventions to improve adherence in individual patients and in programs in two countries
- Establish the process needed for national AIDS control programs to scale-up successful interventions as part of national policy in the two countries
- Work with the other three countries in the region to develop national adherence policies and implement interventions to improve adherence
Leadership, Management and Sustainability (LMS) Program
2005–2010The Leadership, Management and Sustainability (LMS) Program develops managers and leaders who achieve results in the areas of reproductive health, HIV & AIDS, infectious disease, and maternal and child health. LMS works with health organizations in the public and private sectors to create sustainable programs and systems through improved leadership and management. By strengthening management systems and increasing system-wide leadership, LMS improves the performance of health care organizations at all levels, develops human resources, and builds the capacity to anticipate and respond effectively to changing external environments.
Extending Service Delivery (ESD) for Reproductive Health and Family Planning
2005–2010In order to enhance service delivery and the systems that support reproductive health (RH) and family planning (FP), ESD builds upon the extensive work of the now-complete Advance Africa and CATALYST Projects.
The USAID Office of Population and Reproductive Health will support a core agenda focused on increased utilization of quality RH/FP services at the community level among underserved and at-risk groups, especially youth, families in the poorest economic quintiles, postpartum and postabortion clients, and people at-risk for or infected with HIV.
Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus Program
2000–2008RPM Plus works in more than 40 developing countries to provide technical assistance to strengthen pharmaceutical and health commodity management systems. The program works to improve the availability and use of quality medicines, supplies, and basic medical equipment in the public and private sectors and to promote practical, sustainable changes in pharmaceuticals management by developing capacity within cooperating countries and fostering collaboration between countries.
Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS)
1999–2009As a technical assistance partner for newborn and child health to the USAID Bureau for Global Health, the Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS) Project develops and implements strategies to reduce preventable infant and childhood deaths in the developing world. MSH works as a partner in BASICS, which began its third phase in October 2004. Under this indefinite quantity contract (IQC), BASICS assists USAID/Washington Bureaus, USAID field missions, host-country governments, donor agencies, NGOs, PVOs, research institutions, and the private sector to scale up and increase the use of newborn and child health and nutrition interventions by families, communities, and health systems. Since 1993, BASICS has worked to achieve substantial improvements in coverage and to expand effective newborn and child health interventions. BASICS focus areas include newborn health, essential nutrition actions like vitamin A supplementation, immunization, integrated management of childhood illness, treatment of diarrhea and pneumonia, and malaria control. In addition to strengthening the delivery of basic newborn and child health services, BASICS has expanded its technical scope to include pediatric HIV & AIDS, birth spacing, and child survival and nutrition in complex humanitarian crises. BASICS areas of expertise include assistance to countries on comprehensive strategies or selected interventions for newborn and child health, building partnerships, delivery of quality newborn and child health services, community-based treatment and private sector approaches to expand access to services, and capacity building and training.
