Uganda Health Supply Chain (UHSC)

Overview

The USAID-funded and MSH-led UHSC project supported Uganda in creating systems to effectively and sustainably manage essential medicines and health supplies at all levels in the public and private-not-for-profit sectors. UHSC improved supply chain management practices and outcomes by introducing new strategies, appropriate tools, policies, and procedures that improved efficiency and transparency, promoted effective collaboration, and provided evidence to guide policy change. Building on MSH’s history in Uganda, UHSC developed and implemented activities that combine policy, regulatory, managerial, financial, and educational interventions with routine performance monitoring to improve affordability, availability, and accessibility of essential medicines and health supplies.

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How do strong pharmaceutical systems work to combat disease, boost health outcomes, and improve the quality of health services? From 2014 to 2020, the USAID-funded and MSH-led Uganda Health Supply Chain (UHSC) project worked to improve the health status of Ugandans by increasing the availability, affordability, accessibility, and appropriate use of quality essential medicines and health supplies
MSH was awarded an Innovation Fund grant from the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition to facilitate the integration of oxytocin into the vaccines cold chain, as a cost-effective solution to overcoming weaknesses in cold chain infrastructure.

Donors & Partners

Donors

The United States Agency for International Development

Partners

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

Euro Health Group

Imperial Health Sciences

Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development

Makerere University School of Public Health