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Article: Improving HIV/AIDS Healthcare Supply Chain in Sub-Saharan Africa Through New Partnership for Supply Chain Management
- Article from:
- Journal of Global Business Issues
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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ABSTRACT
In Sub-Saharan Africa, timely and reliable access to life saving HIV/AIDS drugs and related commodities by millions of African people living with HIV/AIDS is severely undermined by healthcare supply chain inefficiencies. In response to improve the management of healthcare supply chain and ensure patients' timely access to antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and antiretroviral therapy (ART), the so-called new Partnership for HIV/AIDS Supply Chain Management (NPHASCM) was initiated. NPHASCM is an amalgamation of 15 organizations with competencies in healthcare delivery and supply chain management charged with facilitating rapid response and efficient delivery of HIV/AIDS ARV and ART to ...