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A Growing Challenge: Ensuring Access to ARVs for Kids (1,159 KB)
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Author(s): Mary Lyn Field-Nguer, Steve Hawkins, Claudia Allers
Date Presented: June 01, 2005
Location: Global Health Council Conference
Expansion of access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been gaining momentum over the last two years. However, access to ART for children with HIV has continued to lag behind. This panel presents real world experience to explore the logistics challenges in providing ARVs for pediatric AIDS patients.

An Analysis of Reproductive Health Commodity Security (786 KB)
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Author(s): Rebecca Copeland, Erika Ronnow, Lea Teclemariam, Timothy Williams
Date Presented: November 12, 2002
Location: APHA Conference
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, this presentation defines reproductive health commodity security, describes tools for the monitoring and evaluation of logistics systems, and summarizes the results of monitoring and evaluation assessments conducted in 15 countries.

ARV Drug Availability Issues within the Context of USG-funded Programs: The Case of Zambia and Mozambique (1,288 KB)
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Author(s): Walter Proper, Marilyn Noguera, Abdourahmane Diallo, and Carmit Keddem
Date Presented: June 12, 2006
Location: Durban, South Africa (6/12/06); Toronto, Canada (8/15/06)
Using case studies from Zambia and Mozambique, this poster—which was presented at the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Annual Meeting/The 2006 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting and at the XVI International AIDS Conference—deals with issues related to ARV availability, including the global scale-up of ART programs, production capacity issues faced by manufacturers, and U.S.Government regulations for procurement.

Assessment and Monitoring: ARV Drug Supply Chains (1,732 KB)
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Author(s): Peter Graaff, Richard Owens, Gary Bettger, Claudia Allers, Yasmin Chandani, Helena Walkowiak, Henk den Besten
Date Presented: August 17, 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
From the Skills Building Workshop at the XVI International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006) in Toronto, Canada, this presentation discusses the need for supply chain assessment and monitoring.

Avian Influenza Commodities Update (10,577 KB)
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Author(s): William H. Johnson
Date Presented: October 15, 2008
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
This presentation, given in Bangkok in October 2008, provides an update for avian influenza commodities.

Bangladesh Contraceptive Security Launch Event: Contraceptive Security in Bangladesh (1,373 KB)
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Author(s): DELIVER
Date Presented: June 04, 2002
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
An overview of contraceptive security in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Contraceptive Security Launch Event: Putting Family Planning Back on the Map (149 KB)
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Author(s): Md. Fazlur Rahman
Date Presented: June 04, 2002
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
This presentation includes information on behavior change communications, market segmentation, and in-country production of contraceptives. The presenter goes through each subject and offers suggestions on how to improve each in order to achieve contraceptive security in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh Contraceptive Security Launch Event: Reinvigorating Clinical Methods: Implications to Achieve Contraceptive Security (238 KB)
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Author(s): Director, General Health Services
Date Presented: June 04, 2002
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
This presenation goes over the trend in use of clinical contraceptives and sterilization in Bangladesh, reasons for sterilization decline, and strategies to invirgorate clinical methods.

Coming Up with the Numbers: Quantifying Commodity Needs to Achieve 3x5 (445 KB)
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Author(s): Yasmin Chandani
Date Presented: November 09, 2004
Location: APHA
Describes how HIV/AIDS programs can develop achievable treatment targets by completing realistic forecasts for HIV/AIDS commodities that reflect constraints.

Commodity Security: Progress and Challenges in Priority countries: Bangladesh, Ghana, Peru and Uganda (621 KB)
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Author(s): DELIVER
Date Presented: October 22, 2003
Location: DELIVER Annual Technical Meeting
Describes country-level efforts to develop reproductive health commodity security strategies.


Contraceptive Security Index 2003: A Tool for Priority Setting and Planning (4,319 KB)
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Author(s): Dana Aronovich
Date Presented: November 09, 2004
Location: APHA Conference 2004
Provides an overview of the Contraceptive Security Index. Includes description of methodolgy and uses.

Contraceptive Security Skills Training (364 KB)
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Author(s): DELIVER
Date Presented: January 15, 2004
Location: Various
Explains reproductive health commodity security (CS) and provides guidance to logistics advisors in developing CS strategies at the country level.

Controlling HIV/AIDS Transmission: Estimating Realistic Condom Requirements (258 KB)
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Author(s): Steve Kinzett
Date Presented: May 31, 2002
Location: Arlington, Virginia
This PowerPoint presentation explains what you need to consider when ordering condoms for HIV/AIDS prevention.

Decentralization & the Supply Chain: Indonesia (542 KB)
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Author(s): Daniel Thompson
Date Presented: November 12, 2002
Location: Indonesia
Indonesia's National Family Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN), a government agency responsible for managing the national family planning program, is in the midst of being decentralized, with authority going to districts. This presentation was given at an executive seminar for the top management of BKKBN. It addresses how BKKBN can plan for changes to the contraceptive logistics system caused by decentralization.

Decentralizing and Integrating Contraceptive Logistics Systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (769 KB)
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Author(s): DELIVER
Date Presented: October 25, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Presented at the "State of the Practice: Contraceptive Security in Latin America and the Caribbean" meeting, this presentation discusses why contraceptive logistics is an integral part of health reform.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Availability, Quality, Security, and Accountability of ARVs: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons (170 KB)
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Author(s): Richard Skolnik
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Executive Director of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Program at the Harvard School of Public Health, Richard Skolnik provides an overview of key challenges to the availability, quality, and security for ARVs.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Case Study: Enhancing Seamless Supply Chains for HIV/AIDS Commodities through Partner Collaboration and Coordination (447 KB)
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Author(s): Claudia Allers
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. A Public Health Logistics Advisor with the DELIVER project, Claudia Allers, RN, MPH, presents a case study, based on a composite of various African countries, which illustrates a common scenario for an HIV/AIDS commodity supply chain.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Case Study: Supply Chain Collaboration and Coordination in KwasaKwasa (1,772 KB)
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Author(s): Richard C. Owens
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Project Director of the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) of the Partnership for Supply Chain Management, Inc., Richard C. Owens, Jr., MS provides strategies and possible interventions for the situation presented in the case study.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative: Ensuring Availability of HIV/AIDS Supplies (274 KB)
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Author(s): Kate Condliffe
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Kate Condliffe, from the Clinton Foundation, details efforts at improving the availability of high quality HIV/AIDS commodities.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Development of ART Guidelines and the ARV Drug selection Process at the Country Level (83 KB)
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Author(s): Ya Diul Mukadi
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Using the example of Kenya, Ya Diul Mukadi, MD, MPH (director of the Care and Treatment Division at Family Health International’s Institute for HIV/AIDS), discusses the development of national ART guidelines.


Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Development of HIV Testing Guidelines (3,224 KB)
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Author(s): Mark A. Rayfield
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Mark A. Rayfield, PhD, a microbiologist at the International Laboratory Branch, Global AIDS Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focuses on strategies for HIV/AIDS testing.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Ensuring Product Quality and Availability through In-Country Supply Chain: Perspectives of FBO (341 KB)
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Author(s): Eva M. A. Ombaka
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Eva M. A. Ombaka, PhD, the coordinator of the Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network, presents the challenges to product quality and availability and discusses recommendations.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Ensuring Quality and Availability of ARV Drugs (807 KB)
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Author(s): Thomas Layloff
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Thomas Layloff, Quality Assurance Manager for the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) of the Partnership for Supply Chain Management, Inc., describes the quality assurance process for ARVs.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Ensuring Successful Product Use at Service Delivery Points (5,947 KB)
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Author(s): David Lee
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. David Lee, MD, Deputy Director for Technical Strategy and Quality for the Center for Pharmaceutical Management (CPM) of Management Sciences for Health (MSH), focuses on facility level challenges to ensuring the appropriate use of HIV/AIDS products.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Facilitating Partner Collaboration and Coordination (125 KB)
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Author(s): Jonathan Brown
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Operations Adviser in the Global HIV/AIDS Program in the Human Development Network of the World Bank, Jonathan Brown, MA, MBA, explores ways of facilitating partner coordination and collaboration.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Global AIDS Care (1,339 KB)
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Author(s): Robert Dintruff
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Director for Global Care Initiatives at Abbott Laboratories, Robert Dintruff discusses quality assurance for—and availability of—HIV tests.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Linking Supply Chain Management and Standardization of Laboratory Equipment & Supplies (216 KB)
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Author(s): Abdourahmane Diallo
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. A Public Health Logistics Advisor for the DELIVER project, Abdourahmane Diallo, MD, MPH, discusses the link between supply chain management and the standardization of laboratory procedures.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Partner Collaboration and Coordination in SCM: The AIDSRelief Experience (757 KB)
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Author(s): Carl Stecker
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Carl Stecker, RN, MPH, EdD, senior technical advisor for HIV/AIDS for Catholic Relief Services, presents challenges and recommendations for HIV/AIDS supply chain management.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Promoting Improved Supply Chain Management: The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (2,864 KB)
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Author(s): Reuben Granich
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Reuben Granich, from the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, focuses on partnership efforts at improving supply chain management.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Proposed Approaches to Issues of Partner Collaboration and Coordination: The Procurement Perspective (117 KB)
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Author(s): David Jamieson
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Director of Business Development, Supply Chain Services, for Crown Agents, David Jamieson makes recommendations for collaboration and coordination from the procurement perspective.


Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: Surmounting Challenges: Procurement of Antiretroviral Medicines in Low- and Middle –Income Countries (3,231 KB)
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Author(s): David Olson
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. David Olson, MD, the medical advisor for the U.S. section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), presents an overview of procurement issues for antiretroviral drugs.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: The Importance of the Public Health Approach in Development of Standard Treatment Guidelines and Product Selection (1,120 KB)
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Author(s): Peter Graaff
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Peter Graaff, MSc, MBA, technical officer in the Aids Medicines and Diagnostics Service in the Department of HIV/AIDS at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, explains the public health approach to the treatment of HIV/AIDS.

Delivering HIV/AIDS Commodities to Customers: What Data Do You Really Need at Facilities? Logistics Management Information for Ensuring HIV/AIDS Product Availability and Program Success (5,054 KB)
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Author(s): Yasmin Chandani
Date Presented: May 24, 2006
Location: National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
From the May 24, 2006 DELIVER Critical Issues Series event. Yasmin Chandani, MPH, the HIV/AIDS Technical Coordinator for USAID’s DELIVER project, explains the essential role logistics data plays in ensuring product availability.

DELIVER Model for Supply Chain Systems Improvement (993 KB)
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Author(s): DELIVER
Date Presented: January 12, 2004
Location: Various
This graphic shows the components of DELIVER's Performance Improvement Model from a "complete assessment" to "monitoring of interventions."

Designing Laboratory Logistics Systems for Expanding ART Services (671 KB)
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Author(s): Colleen McLaughlin, Abdourahmane Diallo, Wendy Nicodemus, Yasmin Chandani, Claudia Allers, Ronald Brown
Date Presented: August 15, 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Presented at the XVI International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006) in Toronto, Canada, this poster details some of the steps involved in (and some of the reasons for) designing a logistics system for laboratory supplies.

Developing a Common Understanding of Contraceptive Security (356 KB)
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Author(s): DELIVER
Date Presented: November 03, 2002
Location: Amman, Jordan
The main objective of this workshop conducted in Amman, Jordan, included developing a common understanding of contraceptive security.

Distribution of ARVs: Issues of Logistics, Security, and Quality (2,971 KB)
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Author(s): Yasmin Chandani
Date Presented: January 29, 2004
Location: Institute of Medicine
Describes DELIVER's experience in distribution of ARV drugs, focusing on issues of logistics or supply chain management, security and quality. The presentation focuses on operational and practical logistics issues and includes country examples from SubSaharan Africa and Latin America.

East Africa RHCS: Areas of Focus and Next Steps on RHCS (224 KB)
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Author(s): Mark Bura
Date Presented: November 18, 2005
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Examines areas of focus and next steps for RHCS in the region.

East Africa RHCS: A Whole Market Approach to Achieving the Public Health Mandate (557 KB)
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Author(s): Girmaye Deye, Kimeli Chepsiror, Dr. Catherine Joachim
Date Presented: November 16, 2005
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Includes presentations on 1)Social Marketing's Role in CS (Ethiopia); 2) Reproductive Health-Output Based Aid Project (Kenya); 3) The Potential Role of the Private Sector (Tanzania).

East Africa RHCS: Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi Report Outs (251 KB)
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Author(s): Dr. Josephine Kibaru, Dr. Stephen Wanyee, Ato Atnafu Setegn, Godfrey Kadewele
Date Presented: November 16, 2005
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Describes the contraceptive security plans of action, priorities, and next steps for Kenya, Ethiopia, and Malawi.


East Africa RHCS: Maximizing Resources Through Financing and Procurement (591 KB)
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Author(s): Jane Namasasu, Dr. Catherine B. Sanga
Date Presented: November 16, 2005
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Includes presentations on 1)Family Planning: From a Project Approach to a Sector Wide Approach (Malawi); and 2)Government Commitments to Commodities: Lessons and Challenges (Tanzania).

East Africa RHCS: Pharmaceutical Panel--Organon: Also Our World (3,850 KB)
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Author(s): Frans van Birgelen
Date Presented: November 18, 2005
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Describes Organon's business considerations in the region and explains the role it would like to play in RHCS efforts.

East Africa RHCS: Pharmaceutical Panel--Pfizer (178 KB)
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Author(s): Enrico Liggeri
Date Presented: November 18, 2005
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Describes Pfizer's business considerations in the region and explains the role it would like to play in RHCS efforts.

East Africa RHCS: Pharmaceutical Panel--Schering Africa: Partnership between Public and Private Sectors (530 KB)
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Author(s): Mario Kossmann
Date Presented: November 18, 2005
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Describes Schering's business considerations in the region and explains the role it would like to play in RHCS efforts.

East Africa RHCS: Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania Report Outs (417 KB)
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Author(s): Dr. Ferdinand Bikorimana, Miriam Sentongo, Nils Gade
Date Presented: November 16, 2006
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Describes the contraceptive security plans of action, priorities, and next steps for Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania.

East Africa RHCS: The Bottom Line: Do Clients Have Access? (335 KB)
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Author(s): Tilahun Giday, Linely Vinyo, Julie Wiltshire
Date Presented: November 16, 2005
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Includes presentations on 1)Service Provision—the Reality "on the Ground" (Ethiopia); 2)Expanding Method Mix as a RHCS Strategy (Malawi); 3)Strategies and Challenges of Public Sector Service Provision (Uganda).

East Africa RHCS: The Role of RHCS in Achieving Health Outcomes and MDGs (335 KB)
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Author(s): Dr. Angela Akol, Dr. Josephine Kibaru, Dr. Ferdinand Bikorimana
Date Presented: November 16, 2005
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Includes presentations on 1) The Policy Environment: How Policies Impact RH Programs (Uganda); 2) Repositioning FP: How Investment in FP Contributes to HIV/AIDS Goals (Kenya); and 3) Using PRSPs and Reproductive Health Accounts to Improve RHCS (Rwanda).

East Africa RHCS: Transforming Systems: How recent paradigm shifts affect RHCS (544 KB)
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Author(s): Assefa Demeke, Samuel Chirwa, Danièle Landry-Mugengana, Dr. Ominde Achola
Date Presented: November 16, 2005
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Includes presentations on 1)Impact of Decentralization on Health Services and Systems (Ethiopia); 2)Maintaining CS in an Integrated System (Malawi); 3) Commodity Management: Challenges Facing Donor Funding; 4)Challenges and Issues Related to Integrating FP and HIV/AIDS Prevention (Regional).

East Africa RHCS: Understanding the Approach and the Situation (1,142 KB)
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Author(s): Carolyn Hart, Dr. Joerg F. Maas
Date Presented: November 16, 2005
Location: East Africa RHCS Conference
Provides definition of reproductive health commodity security, describes its component parts, and shares current data and trends from countries of the region.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning--Albania: Contraceptive Security Strategy (565 KB)
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Author(s): Fedor Kallajxhi, MOH, Albania
Date Presented: April 12, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
This presentation focuses on the contraceptive security strategy for Albania.


Ensuring Access to Family Planning--Armenia: Financial Incentives and Distortions in FP/RH Service Delivery (1,381 KB)
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Author(s): Karine Saribekyan, Head, MCH Department, Ministry of Health, Republic of Armenia
Date Presented: April 12, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
This presentation focuses on increasing access to family planning in Armenia.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning--Armenia Working Group (187 KB)
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Author(s): Samvel Hovhannisyan
Date Presented: April 15, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
Provides output from country working group for Armenia.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning--Azerbaijan Working Group (in Russian) (691 KB)
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Author(s): Various
Date Presented: April 15, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
Provides output from country working group for Azerbaijan. Note: This presentation is in Russian.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning: Family Planning in the Context of Recent Demographic and Reproductive Health Trends in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (3,557 KB)
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Author(s): Florina Serbanescu, MD, MPH
Date Presented: April 15, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
Describes family planning in the context of recent demographic and reproductive health trends in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning: Financial Incentives: Regional Experience in Increasing Access to Contraceptive Provision (2,578 KB)
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Author(s): David Sarley
Date Presented: April 12, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
This presentation addresses financial incentives and distortions to reproductive health service provision.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning--Georgia (363 KB)
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Author(s): Levan Baramidze, Director PH Dept., MoLHSA, Georgia
Date Presented: April 12, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
This presentation examines reproductive health technology and service delivery in Georgia.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning--Georgia Working Group (194 KB)
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Author(s): Kartlos Kankadze
Date Presented: April 15, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
Provides output from country working group for Georgia.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning--Romania: Expanding RH Coverage (3,816 KB)
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Author(s): Dr. Laurentiu Stan, Program Coordinator, JSI/Romania
Date Presented: April 12, 2005
Location: Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
This presentation focuses on the challenges and successes of expanding reproductive health coverage in Romania.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning--Russia: Expanding Access to Contraceptives through Postpartum and Postabortion Counseling (596 KB)
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Author(s): Natalia Vartapetova, MD, PhD, JSI
Date Presented: April 12, 2005
Location: Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
This presentation examines expanding access to contraceptives through postpartum and postabortion counseling.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning--Russia Working Group (168 KB)
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Author(s): Dr. Alfia Yusupova
Date Presented: April 15, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
Provides output from country working group for Russia.


Ensuring Access to Family Planning: Strategic Framework (4,428 KB)
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Author(s): Various
Date Presented: April 15, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
Outlines process for preparing a strategic approach to improving access to FP services.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning: The Political and System Context: Common Issues for Countries in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (177 KB)
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Author(s): Tony Hudgins
Date Presented: April 12, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
This presentation set the context for the conference discussions by examining recent demographic and reproductive health trends in he region.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning--Ukraine (510 KB)
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Author(s): Various
Date Presented: April 12, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
This presentation focuses on the private sector and the contraceptive security strategy for Ukraine.

Ensuring Access to Family Planning--Ukraine Working Group (188 KB)
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Author(s): Nadiia Salo
Date Presented: April 15, 2005
Location: Conference on Ensuring Access to Family Planning, Europe and Eurasia
Provides output from country working group for Ukraine.

Evidence-Based Approach to Improved Product Availability in Nigeria (3,085 KB)
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Author(s): Lea Teclemariam
Date Presented: May 28, 2003
Location: Global Health Council Conference
Presented at the annual meeting of the Global Health Council, this presentation details a DELIVER assessment of Nigeria's public sector supply chain for contraceptives, select STI drugs, and TB drugs. The assessment also examined the availability of key products in privately owned pharmacies.

Evidence-Based Family Planning Program Management: Contraceptive Security and Equity of Family Planning Use (367 KB)
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Author(s): Dana Aronovich, Ali Karim, David O'Brien
Date Presented: December 12, 2005
Location: Philadelphia, PA
DELIVER presentation from Improving and Monitoring Reproductive Health Commodity Security, a round table discussion at the American Public Health Association's 133rd Annual Meeting.

Evidence of the Effect of Reproductive Health Commodity Availability on Achieving the MDGs (309 KB)
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Author(s): Ali Mehryar Karim, Elizabeth Bunde, David O'Brien, Dana Aronovich
Date Presented: June 01, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Presented at the Global Health Council’s 33rd Annual International Conference on Global Health, this presentation looks at the effect product availability has on maternal and child health service utilization. The conclusion is that investment in logistics systems management for reproductive health commodities is essential in order to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for improving maternal health.

Ghana Contraceptive Security Workshop: Supply Perspective on the Five Year Programme of Work (203 KB)
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Author(s): Raja Rao
Date Presented: May 13, 2004
Location: Sogakope, Ghana
In May 2002, the Ghana Ministry of Health hosted a two-day symposium for government representatives to discuss contraceptive security strategies with international donors, partner institutions, and nongovernmental organizations. The event was organized by DELIVER. The presentation focuses on supplies and supply management.

Global Contraceptive Security: The Role of Supply Chain Management in Reaching the Client (3,665 KB)
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Author(s): Richard C. Owens, Jr.
Date Presented: July 19, 2000
Location: National Press Club
Panel presentation on supply chain management given as part of the Critical Issues Series.

Health Systems as the Weak Link in IMCI in Ethiopia (1,593 KB)
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Author(s): Fekadu Adugna
Date Presented: June 03, 2005
Location: Global Health Council Conference
Presents results from a recent survey on the implementation of IMCI in Ethiopia. A key supply management-related finding included the fact that a high proportion of facilities visited on the day of the survey were stocked out of essential medicines required to provide child health services according to the IMCI protocol.


Highlights of the Uganda Health Facilities Survey 2002, Uganda Ministry of Health (827 KB)
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Author(s): DELIVER, AIM, Measure DHS, USAID, CDC
Date Presented: July 01, 2003
Location: Various
This presentation describes the objectives, methodology, and results of the 2002 Uganda Health Facilities Survey. The survey was conducted to provide data to the Ministry of Health for decision making concerning: logistics system performance and stock status of key health commodities; availability of HIV/AIDS-related services (STIs, TB, other OIs); availability of trained staff; and a baseline for collaborative MOH/USG programs. Collaborating Partners: DELIVER, AIM, Measure DHS+, USAID, CDC

ICASA Poster Sessions, Dec 2005 – Poster 1: Logistics Implications of Integrating Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Services (4,621 KB)
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Author(s): Yasmin Chandani and Lea Teclemariam
Date Presented: December 06, 2005
Location: Abuja, Nigeria.
“Logistics Implications of Integrating Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Services”— DELIVER presentation from the 14th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA).

ICASA Poster Sessions, Dec 2005 – Poster 2: A Technology Solution for Tracking Patients on ART (5,055 KB)
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Author(s): Rovaro Bayard, John Wilson, Richard Ainsworth, Jennifer Mboyane, Barbara Felling, Yasmin Chandani
Date Presented: December 06, 2005
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
"A Technology Solution for Tracking Patients on ART: STAT biometrics/smart card use in South Africa"—DELIVER presentation from the 14th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA).

ICASA Poster Sessions, Dec 2005 – Poster 3: What LMIS Data Do You Need to Manage ARVs? (4,750 KB)
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Author(s): Naomi Printz, Yasmin Chandani, Barbara Felling, Gregory Roche
Date Presented: December 06, 2005
Location: Abuja, Nigeria.
"What LMIS Data Do You Need to Manage ARVs?"—DELIVER presentation from the 14th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA)

ICASA Poster Sessions, Dec 2005 – Poster 4: Laboratory Logistics for Expanding ART Services (4,199 KB)
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Author(s): Wendy Nicodemus, Abdourahmane Diallo, Ronald Brown
Date Presented: December 06, 2005
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
“Laboratory Logistics for Expanding ART Services"—DELIVER presentation from the 14th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA)

ICASA Poster Sessions, Dec 2005 – Poster 5: Logistics Implications of Selection, Packaging and Dosing of Pediatric ARVs (4,140 KB)
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Author(s): Barbara Felling, Eric Takang, Erin Hasselbeg
Date Presented: December 07, 2005
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
“Logistics Implications of Selection, Packaging and Dosing of Pediatric ARVs"—DELIVER presentation from the 14th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA)

ICASA Poster Sessions, Dec 2005 – Poster 6: Challenges In Quantification of Pediatric ARVs (4,011 KB)
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Author(s): Claudia Allers
Date Presented: December 07, 2005
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
“Challenges In Quantification of Pediatric ARVs"—DELIVER presentation from the 14th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA)

Implementing Antiretroviral Therapy: Assessing Facility and Logistics System Readiness (846 KB)
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Author(s): John Snow, Inc.
Date Presented: September 24, 2003
Location: ICASA
Describes why an assessment of facility and system readiness is important and explains the minimum requirements for an effective ART program. Also discusses the potential of the assessment tool for rapid assessment and provides experiences from the field.

Implications of Health Sector Reform for Contraceptive Logistics (907 KB)
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Author(s): Steve Kinzett, Sandhya Rao, Jim Bates, Yasmin Chandani
Date Presented: September 19, 2000
Location: National Press Club
Underway in many developing countries, health sector reform (HSR) aims to improve the quality, efficiency, equity, and financial sustainability of public health services. It often does this, however, through four innovations that can significantly affect logistics: integration, decentralization, cost recovery, and privatization. What can happen in developing countries when HSR collides with efforts to improve contraceptive logistics systems? This presentation from the second event in the Critical Issues series examines this issue.

Influence of Family Planning Logistics Systems on Contraceptive Use (369 KB)
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Author(s): Ali Mehryar Karim
Date Presented: March 31, 2005
Location: Population Association of America Annual Meeting
Using data from 17 countries, this presentation examines the impact of logistics systems on contraceptive use.


Injection Device Security for Injectable Contraceptives (3,583 KB)
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Author(s): Paula Nersesian
Date Presented: November 07, 2004
Location: APHA Conference
Discusses concept of injection security and findings of several studies on the topic.

Innovative Approaches to Improve Contraceptive Security in Romania (2,884 KB)
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Author(s): Laurentiu Stan
Date Presented: June 03, 2005
Location: Global Health Council Conference
Describes the main challenges to achieving contraceptive security in Romania, and the development and implementation of the logistic management information system for family planning services.

Interactive Look at Nigeria’s Supply Chain (662 KB)
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Author(s): Johnnie Amenyah
Date Presented: April 16, 2008
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
This presentation is from the April 16-17, 2008 national workshop, sponsored by the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) and the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, to develop a strategy for strengthening Nigeria’s health commodity supply chains.

Inventory Management of Laboratory Supplies to Support ART Programs (351 KB)
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Author(s): Abdourahmane Diallo, Yasmin Chandani, Ronald Brown
Date Presented: August 15, 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Presented at the XVI International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006) in Toronto, Canada, this poster discusses the laboratory services required for ART programs, the characteristics of laboratory programs and supplies, and the challenges of managing laboratory supplies.

JSI Information Management Tools for HIV/AIDS Supply Chains (2,063 KB)
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Author(s): Yasmin Chandani
Date Presented: August 13, 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
From the XVI International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006) in Toronto, Canada, this presentation gives an overview of the tools used for managing HIV/AIDS supply chains.

Keeping Accountable: Developing a Logistics Information System to Monitor ARV Drugs in Uganda (253 KB)
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Author(s): Moses Muwonge
Date Presented: November 09, 2004
Location: APHA
This presentation describes the key elements for developing and implementing an effective logistics management information system for ARV’s in Uganda.

Latex Condoms: Effectiveness Against HIV Transmission (10,523 KB)
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Author(s): John Wilson
Date Presented: May 30, 2002
Location: Arlington, Virginia
This PowerPoint presentation explains how condoms are made and how they protect against HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

Lessons Learned: Strengthening Laboratory Supply Chains (4,046 KB)
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Author(s): Ronald Brown
Date Presented: August 16, 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
From the XVI International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006) in Toronto, Canada, this presentation gives an overview of the lessons learned about laboratory supply chains from DELIVER’s work in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia.

Mali: Logistics System Assessment and Survey of Product Availability (8,880 KB)
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Author(s): Dana Aronovich
Date Presented: July 17, 2001
Location: Various Locations
This presentation describes the objectives and methodology for a comprehensive assessment of the logistics system for health commodities, particularly contraceptives and STI drugs. It also includes the results of the assessment and recommendations for improvements to the system.

Managing HIV and AIDS Commodities through Integrated Supply Chains (1,017 KB)
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Author(s): Carmit Keddem, Yasmin Chandani, James Bates, Sarah Andersson, Claudia Allers, and Eric Takang
Date Presented: May 31, 2008
Location: Global Health Council Conference
Poster presentation on the approaches, challenges, and benefits to integration of HIV and AIDS supply cahins.


Managing Zambia’s National ART Supply Chain Demands Attention and Collaboration between National Supply Chain Partners (1,332 KB)
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Author(s): Walter Proper
Date Presented: June 12, 2006
Location: Durban, South Africa (6/12/06); Toronto, Canada (8-15-06)
This poster—which was presented at the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Annual Meeting/The 2006 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting and at the XVI International AIDS Conference—stresses the importance of collaboration in managing a national ART supply chain.

Media Advocacy for Contraceptive Security (819 KB)
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Author(s): Paul Crystal
Date Presented: December 15, 2003
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Working with the Health Communication Partnership and the POLICY project, DELIVER recently organized a workshop on how to use mass media as a tool to advocate for contraceptive security. Results from this first-of-its-kind event showed that television, radio, and the press can help generate the political will needed for contraceptive security. This presentation provides an overview of the workshop.

Meeting the Commodity Challenge: Securing Contraceptives and Condoms for Ghana, May 13-14 2002 - Contraceptive Security (152 KB)
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Author(s): Raja Rao
Date Presented: May 13, 2002
Location: Sogakope, Ghana
In May 2002, the Ghana Ministry of Health hosted a two-day symposium for government representatives to discuss contraceptive security strategies with international donors, partner institutions, and nongovernmental organizations. The event was organized by DELIVER. Commodity security is defined and discussed in this presentation.

Meeting the Commodity Challenge: Securing Contraceptives and Condoms for Ghana, May 13-14 2002 - Integration (166 KB)
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Author(s): Raja Rao
Date Presented: May 13, 2002
Location: Sogakope, Ghana
In May 2002, the Ghana Ministry of Health hosted a two-day symposium for government representatives to discuss contraceptive security strategies with international donors, partner institutions, and nongovernmental organizations. The event was organized by DELIVER. This presentation focuses on the transition from the old supply chain system to the new integrated one.

Meeting the Commodity Challenge: Securing Contraceptives and Condoms for Ghana, May 13-14 2002 - Overview (11,964 KB)
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Author(s): DELIVER
Date Presented: May 13, 2002
Location: Sogakope, Ghana
In May 2002, the Ghana Ministry of Health hosted a two-day symposium for government representatives to discuss contraceptive security strategies with international donors, partner institutions, and nongovernmental organizations. The event was organized by DELIVER. This presentation covers the goal of the workshop, a background on Ghana's MOH, an overview of the program, as well as key messages.

National Drug Policiy and Supply Chain Strategies (112 KB)
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Author(s): Joyce Ugwu
Date Presented: April 16, 2008
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
This presentation is from the April 16-17, 2008 national workshop, sponsored by the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) and the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, to develop a strategy for strengthening Nigeria’s health commodity supply chains.

Nigeria Health Supply Chain Strategic Workshop (2,756 KB)
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Author(s): John Larkin
Date Presented: April 16, 2008
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Summary of Nigeria health supply chain strategic planning workshop. This presentation is from the April 16-17, 2008 national workshop, sponsored by the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) and the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, to develop a strategy for strengthening Nigeria’s health commodity supply chains.

Options for Contraceptive Procurement: Lessons Learned from Latin America (284 KB)
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Author(s): DELIVER
Date Presented: October 25, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Presented at the "State of the Practice: Contraceptive Security in Latin America and the Caribbean" meeting, this presentation provides an overview of contraceptive procurement in Latin American countries.

Performance Improvement Model (1,012 KB)
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Author(s): USAID | DELIVER PROJECT
Date Presented: March 24, 2008
Location: Various
Graphic of a performance improvement model used by the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT.

Policy Considerations for Initiating and Expanding National ARV Drug Supply Chains (468 KB)
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Author(s): Yasmin Chandani, Moses Muwonge, Steve Wilbur, Barbara Felling, Claudia Allers
Date Presented: August 15, 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Presented at the XVI International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006) in Toronto, Canada, this poster discusses the key characteristics of ARV supply chains, common supply chain challenges, and how seamless supply chains require an enabling policy environment.


Policy Considerations for Managing Laboratory Supplies to Support ART (394 KB)
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Author(s): Ronald Brown, Abdourahmane Diallo, Wendy Nicodemus
Date Presented: August 15, 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Presented at the XVI International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006) in Toronto, Canada, this poster details the policies that are important for managing laboratory supplies.

Process Mapping Example Graphic (237 KB)
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Author(s): DELIVER
Date Presented: May 02, 2003
Location: Various
This diagram shows a small portion of the process map for the contraceptive supply chain of the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana.

Process Mapping for Improved Health Logistics System Performance (4,766 KB)
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Author(s): Barbara Felling, Greg Roche
Date Presented: June 02, 2005
Location: Global Health Council Annual Conference
This presentation explains how and why process mapping is used; explains process mapping within the context of logistics systems re-engineering; and describes the workflow data collection, charting, and analysis process.

Promoting Contraceptive Security Through Innovative Health System Interventions (2,436 KB)
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Author(s): Raja Rao, Daniel Thompson, Todd Dickens
Date Presented: June 02, 2005
Location: Global Health Council Conference
The panel presented interventions that are strengthening national health systems' ability to increase contraceptive security in over 20 countries. Interventions include improvements in procurement and financing, and innovative decentralization.

Quantifying Drug Needs: ProQ, a Model for Forecasting HIV/AIDS Diagnostics Requirements (210 KB)
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Author(s): Richard C. Owens, Jr.
Date Presented: February 23, 2004
Location: WHO
Discusses quantification for essential health products at the country level, and describes the uses of ProQ, a software model for forecasting HIV/AIDS diagnostics requirements.

Quantifying Pediatric ARV Drugs: A Common Framework (339 KB)
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