Promising Practices in Supply Chain Management
This series of briefs, commissioned by the Supply and Awareness Technical Reference Team (TRT) of the United Nations Commission on Life-Saving Commodi...
Estimation of Unmet Medical Need for Essential Maternal Health Medicines
Health Systems in Action: An eHandbook for Leaders and Managers
Quality Use of Medicines within Universal Health Coverage: Challenges and Opportunities
Ensuring that medicines which achieve important health outcomes are available, accessible to all, used appropriately, and sustainably affordable is es...
Linkage, Initiation and Retention of Children in the Antiretroviral Therapy Cascade: An Overview
In 2012, there were an estimated 2 million children in need of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the world, but ART is still reaching fewer than 3 in 10...
Evidence from the Field: Missed Opportunities for Identifying and Linking HIV-Infected Children for Early Initiation of ART
As of 2012, only 34% of treatment eligible children in low- and middle-income countries were receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART) despite proven b...
The Role of AFB Microscopy Training in Improving the Performance of Laboratory Professionals: Analysis of Pre and Post Training Evaluation Scores
In low income countries, Ziehl-Neelsen sputum smear microscopy is the only cost-effective tool for diagnosis and monitoring of patients on treatmen...
A Quiet Revolution in Global Public Health: The World Health Organization’s Prequalification of Medicines Programme
Problems with the quality of medicines abound in countries where regulatory and legal oversight are weak, where medicines are unaffordable to most, an...
Were Medicine Quality and Pharmaceutical Management Contributing Factors in Diminishing Artemisinin Efficacy in Guyana and Suriname?
Recent studies in Guyana and Suriname revealed diminished efficacy of artemisinin derivatives based on day-3 parasitaemia. Data on malaria medicine qu...
Improving Adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment in Uganda with a Low-Resource Facility-Based Intervention
This study assessed the effects of facility-based interventions using existing resources to improve overall patient attendance and adherence to antire...