Management Sciences for Health to Improve the Health of Millions in Madagascar through Two New USAID-funded Programs
Interventions to focus on health systems strengthening, quality of care, healthy behaviors, and access to pharmaceuticals and health commodities Arlin...
Validity of World Health Organisation Prescribing Indicators in Namibia's Primary Healthcare: Findings and Implications
World Health Organization/International Network of Rational use of Drugs (WHO/INRUD) indicators are widely used to assess medicine use. However, th...
Longitudinal Study Assessing the One-year Effects of Supervision Performance Assessment and Recognition Strategy (SPARS) to Improve Medicines Management in Uganda Health Facilities
In late 2010, Uganda introduced a supervision, performance assessment, and recognition strategy (SPARS) to improve staff capacity in medicines mana...
Pre- and Post-diagnosis Costs of Tuberculosis to Patients on Directly Observed Treatment Short Course in Districts of Southwestern Ethiopia: A Longitudinal Study
A longitudinal study among 735 new TB cases was conducted from January 2015 through June 2016 in 10 woredas (districts) of southwestern Ethiopia. Betw...
Evaluating Inter-rater Reliability of Indicators to Assess Performance of Medicines Management in Health Facilities in Uganda
To build capacity in medicines management, the Uganda Ministry of Health introduced a nationwide supervision, performance assessment and recognitio...
Factors Which Contributed for Low Quality Sputum Smears for the Detection of Acid Fast Bacilli (AFB) at Selected Health Centers in Ethiopia: A Quality Control Perspective
Quality of tuberculosis (TB) microscopy diagnosis is not a guarantee despite implementation of external quality assurance (EQA) services in all labora...
![[Left to right: Marian Wentworth, MSH President and CEO; Cletus Otieno, Habemus Pharmacy; Lawrence Fish, MSH Board Chairman; Chief Pharmacist and Registrar of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board, Dr. Fred Siyoi; MSH Vice President, Pharmaceuticals and Health Technologies Group, Dr. Douglas Keene; and MedSource CEO Dr. Peter Kamunyo.] {Photo credit: IMG Events & PR}](https://msh.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/medsource_day_2.medsourcelaunch.715px.jpg)
MedSource, Kenya’s first member-driven pharmaceutical group purchasing organization, has been launched today
Nairobi, Kenya—October 11, 2018—MedSource, a group purchasing organization dedicated to improving the availability and affordability of quality medici...
Local Sourcing and Supplier Development in Global Health: Analysis of the Supply Chain Management System’s Local Procurement in Four Countries
From 2006 to 2014, Supply Chain Management System (SCMS), the global procurement and distribution project for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for ...
Factors Affecting the Utilization of Xpert MTB/RIF Assay among TB Clinic Health Workers in Addis Ababa
Our objective was to assess the knowledge of health professionals on Xpert MTB/RIF assay and associated factors in detecting TB/TB drug resistance. An...