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Strengthening public health supply chains in Ethiopia: PEPFAR-supported expansion of access and availability

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  • Daniel Taddesse
  • David Jamieson
  • Logan Cochrane

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When the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)-supported Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) programme began working in Ethiopia in 2006, the estimated population of people living with HIV exceeded one million, while only 24,000 were on treatment and only 50 treatment sites were in operation. SCMS and other key partners entered into this context to support the Ethiopian government in significantly strengthening the public health supply chain system, with the aim of increasing the availability and accessibility of pharmaceutical products. The country now has 1,047 treatment sites and is nearing complete treatment coverage. This article discusses how priorities were set among many competing challenges from 2006 until 2014, and how the four-step strategy of build, operate, transfer, and optimise has resulted in a successful partnership.

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  • Daniel Taddesse & David Jamieson & Logan Cochrane, 2015. "Strengthening public health supply chains in Ethiopia: PEPFAR-supported expansion of access and availability," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(7), pages 1043-1056, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:25:y:2015:i:7:p:1043-1056
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2015.1069794
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