In July 2000, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) received financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to implement the five-year Strategies for Enhancing Access to Medicines (SEAM) Program.
The SEAM Program—
- Complements and enhances continuing collaboration between MSH and the many agencies throughout the world working to improve access to and appropriate use of medicines
- Encourages and supports innovative country-level public-private initiatives that can serve as models for countries throughout the developing world
- Supports the development of information, and promotes its accessibility and use
SEAM uses its resources to—
- Identify gaps in access to medicines, vaccines, and other health commodities
- Provide technical assistance for the design and implementation of strategies that will improve both access to and use of essential medicines and other health commodities
- Evaluate the impact of strategies designed to improve access
- Improve access to and use of appropriate information
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