Several tools were created under the Strengthening Pharmaceutical System's predecessor, the Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus program. The following tools will continue to be promoted and utilized under the SPS program.  To download any of the tools below, click on the blue links. For more information, please contact sps@msh.org.

Software Tools

SPS has a variety of software tools designed to help streamline operations and facilitate best practices in a wide range of pharmaceutical management and health areas. Read and view a description of each of the different tools available. For any questions about software tools, please contact sps@msh.org.

• EDT: Designed for managing dispensing for HIV/AIDS, anti-malarial, anti-tubercular and opportunistic medicines.
• e-TB Manager: System-strengthening electronic web-based tool that addresses all management information needs of TB control programs.
• Pharmadex: Helps streamline and track the medicine registration efforts for a national drug program.
• Quantimed: Supports the calculation of the estimated total cost of medicines, medical supplies, laboratory supplies, and reagents needed to provide services for health programs.
• Rx Solution: An integrated computerized pharmaceutical management system.
  

Antimicrobial Resistance

• Antimicrobial Resistance Module for Populations-Based Surveys [PDF - 552KB]
• ART Adherence Measurement Tool
• • Patient Adherence Record Form [PDF - 122KB]
  • Instructions for Completing Patient Adherence Record Form [PDF - 134KB]
    
    
• Building Local Coalitions for Containing Drug Resistance: A Guide [PDF - 1MB]
• Containing Antimicrobial Resistance: Guide for USAID Missions to Institution-Based Interventions [PDF - 288KB]
• Drug and Therapeutics Committees (DTCs) Training Materials
  
• How to Investigate Antimicrobial Use in Hospitals: Selected Indicators [PDF - 291KB]
• Infection Control Assessment Tool (ICAT) [PDF - 703KB] and ICAT User Manual [PDF - 127KB]
  
  

HIV/AIDS

• A Commodity and Management Planning Guide for the Scale-Up of HIV Counseling and Testing Services [PDF - 1.1MB]
  
  

Malaria

• SPS Malaria Toolbox [PDF - 96KB]
  
• Changing Malaria Treatment Policy to Artemisinin-Based Combinations: An Implementation Guide
• • English [PDF - 352KB]
    
  • French [PDF - 357KB]
    
  • Spanish [PDF - 203KB]
    
    
• Pharmaceutical Management for Malaria Manual [PDF - 1.58MB]
• • English [PDF -1.58MB]
    
  • French [PDF - 682KB]
    
  • Spanish [PDF- 1.42MB]
    

Tuberculosis

• e-TB Manager
• • English flyer [PDF - 247KB]
    
  • Spanish flyer [PDF - 269KB]
    
    
• Managing TB Medicines at the Primary Level
• • English [PDF - 2.37MB]
    
  • French [PDF - 2.40MB]
    
    
• Managing Pharmaceuticals and Commodities: A Guide for National Tuberculosis Programs
• • English [PDF - 1.2MB]
    
  • French [PDF - 1.2MB]
    
  • Spanish [PDF - 1.1MB]
    
    
• Pharmaceutical Management for Tuberculosis (PMTB) Assessment Manual [PDF - 742KB]

Other Useful Tools and Manuals

Monitoring-Training-Planning (MTP), which was developed under SPS' predecessor - the RPM Plus program funded by USAID - is an ongoing performance improvement approach to skills building that places training, tools, and responsibility for implementing the pharmaceutical management practices learned in the hands of local staff. The approach includes:

• Using indicators to analyze the current situation and/or measure the magnitude of the problem.
• Discussing current practices and the underlying factors for identified problems and how to improve the situation or implement a new initiative.
• Setting the target for improvement or implementation of the initiative

Recommended Sites

The Procurement & Supply Management (PSM) Toolbox is a web-based resource for HIV-related health commodities that developed by the World Heath Organization/AIDS Medicines and Diagnostics Service and its partner organizations. The PSM Toolbox website features a user-friendly search engine, regularly updated content, a forum to share tool use experiences, and weekly tool highlights and related news. For users with limited or no internet connections, an offline version of the PSM Toolbox is available on CD-ROM for no cost.