The RPM Plus Program collaborated with USAID/HAITI through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to support the Government of Haiti in reinforcing and extending HIV/AIDS services, including voluntary testing and counseling (VCT), prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), and antiretroviral therapy (ART). The goal was to extend these services to approximately 80 selected centers in ten geographical departments.
Increasing availability and access to essential medicines, including antiretroviral medicines (ARVs), still remains a challenge in Haiti, where resources allocated to the public pharmaceutical sector are limited and not often used appropriately.
RPM Plus collaborated with the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders to identify interventions and mechanisms necessary to deliver a minimum package of health services, including ART. Areas in which RPM Plus provided technical assistance included—
- Training in pharmaceutical management
- Procurement of medicines while building local capacity in quantification
- Distribution of health commodities to selected health care facilities
- Reinforcement of the pharmaceutical management information system
Additionally, as part of an effort to expand the internationally recommended TB control strategy, Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course (DOTS), throughout Haiti, RPM Plus worked with WHO's Global Drug Facility (GDF) to assess the country's pharmaceutical management system for TB medicines and to address identified problems.
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