RPM Plus: Donor Coordination

RPM Plus fostered coordination of organizations that donate to health commodities programs, in order to improve product availability at local levels. In addition, the program promoted specific mechanisms to monitor and assess the impact of reform initiatives on access, availability, and use of essential drugs and health commodities.

All staff from RPM Plus, its partners, and collaborating institutions used their diverse skills and experience to help countries strengthen their own systems for managing drug supply and improving the use of essential drugs and other health commodities.

Global TB Drug Facility

To help combat TB infection in the developing world, RPM Plus collaborated with the Stop TB Initiative's Global Drug Facility (GDF). The GDF provides effective, high-quality anti-TB drugs to countries in need, and RPM Plus works with the GDF to help ensure that these drugs are properly stored, effectively distributed, and correctly used.

RPM Plus also joined GDF teams that assess the drug management capacity of countries requesting TB drugs. These surveys help determine if a country needs technical assistance to effectively manage a donation of TB drugs. RPM Plus has participated in GDF country surveys in a number of locations such as in Kenya, Moldova, and Tajikistan.