News and Stories
The Strengthening Pharmaceutical System's News and Stories section features the most recent Featured Story, Featured Country and latest News on SPS activities. For more information, please contact sps@msh.org.
Featured Story: Launch of Web-based Procurement and Logistics Management Tools in Bangladesh
At the launching ceremony of the new Supply Chain Information Portal (SCIP), the Bangladeshi Health Minister, Professor Dr. A. F. M. Ruhal Haque, and USAID Mission Director to Bangladesh, Ms. Denise Rollins, jointly introduced the Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP)’s new Web-based Procurement and Logistics Management Tools on February 15, 2011 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka. MSH’s USAID-funded Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program has been assisting the government of Bangladesh to plan, implement, monitor and provide training to DGFP staff to make the updated information system operable. More>>
Featured Country: Bringing Effective Malaria Treatment Closer to the Communities through the Private Sector in Liberia
Access to artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) remains low because their use is limited to public health facilities. Currently, 46 percent of Liberia’s population access malaria medicines through the private sector, where ACTs are more expensive. As a result, the majority of these outlets also stock chloroquine and other monotherapies. To increase Liberians’ access to ACTs through the private sector, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare ( MoHSW) needs to characterize that market, so it can design an effective distribution and marketing plan. The Strenghtening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) program, in collaboration with the MoHSW, conducted a situational analysis of the private sector in Montserrado County, Liberia, to gather the evidence needed to successfully distribute subsidized ACTs through the private sector. More>>
News: National Standard Treatment Guidelines are Launched in Namibia
The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services has recently worked with the USAID-funded Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program on developing comprehensive national guidelines which were formally launched on June 1, 2011. More>>
Featured Story: Launch of Web-based Procurement and Logistics Management Tools in Bangladesh
At the launching ceremony of the new Supply Chain Information Portal (SCIP), the Bangladeshi Health Minister, Professor Dr. A. F. M. Ruhal Haque, and USAID Mission Director to Bangladesh, Ms. Denise Rollins, jointly introduced the Directorate General of Family Planning (DGFP)’s new Web-based Procurement and Logistics Management Tools on February 15, 2011 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon in Dhaka. MSH’s USAID-funded Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program has been assisting the government of Bangladesh to plan, implement, monitor and provide training to DGFP staff to make the updated information system operable. More>>
Featured Country: Bringing Effective Malaria Treatment Closer to the Communities through the Private Sector in Liberia
Access to artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) remains low because their use is limited to public health facilities. Currently, 46 percent of Liberia’s population access malaria medicines through the private sector, where ACTs are more expensive. As a result, the majority of these outlets also stock chloroquine and other monotherapies. To increase Liberians’ access to ACTs through the private sector, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare ( MoHSW) needs to characterize that market, so it can design an effective distribution and marketing plan. The Strenghtening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) program, in collaboration with the MoHSW, conducted a situational analysis of the private sector in Montserrado County, Liberia, to gather the evidence needed to successfully distribute subsidized ACTs through the private sector. More>>
News: National Standard Treatment Guidelines are Launched in Namibia
The Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services has recently worked with the USAID-funded Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) Program on developing comprehensive national guidelines which were formally launched on June 1, 2011. More>>
Last Updated: 13 June 2011
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