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In partnership with countries around the world, we have developed hundreds of resources to help strengthen the foundations of health systems. Please search our Resources to learn more about our publications, research, programmatic approaches, tools, and learnings.
Strengthening Supply Chain and Pharmaceutical Systems for Sustained Health Impact
For more than three decades, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) has partnered with countries to build high-performing supply chains that ensure reliable access to safe, effective, quality-assured medicines and people-centered pharmaceutical services. MSH takes a holistic approach that fosters country-led innovation, whole-of-society engagement and collaboration, private-sector engagement, and effective leadership and governance. This ensures both reliable, affordable access to and sustainable delivery of medical products when and where they are needed and their appropriate use to save lives and improve health.
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PHC Costing, Analysis, and Planning (PHC-CAP) Tool
Overview The PHC Costing, Analysis, and Planning (PHC-CAP) Tool helps program planners and decision makers increase coverage and improve the quality o…
Assessment of the Impact of Good Pharmacy Practices Training among Drug Dispensers in Bangladesh
Accelerating the End of TB: Field Research from Management Sciences for Health—2008-2022
Taking Stock: Provider Prescribing Practices in the Presence and Absence of ACT Stock
Abstract Background Globally, the monitoring of prompt and effective treatment for malaria with artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) is conducted lar…
Measuring Adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment in Resource-Poor Settings: The Feasibility of Collecting Routine Data for Key Indicators
An East African survey showed that among the few health facilities that measured adherence to antiretroviral therapy, practices and definitions varied…
Monitoring Adherence and Defaulting for Antiretroviral Therapy in 5 East African Countries: An Urgent Need for Standards
A cross-sectional survey was performed in 24 systems of care providing antiretroviral medications in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, an…
Use Of Technology In The Ebola Response In West Africa
The 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the largest in history. This brief summarizes information and communication technologies that have been used…
The Magnitude and Trend of Artemether-Lumefantrine Stock-Outs at Public Health Facilities in Kenya
Despite lower levels of artemether-lumefantrine (AL) stock-outs compared to the reports in 2008, the stock-outs at Kenyan facilities during 2010-2011 …
Digital Health Technologies to Support Access to Medicines and Pharmaceutical Services in the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals
The objective of this study was to describe the conceptual and implementation approach of selected digital health technologies that were tailored i…
Facility-Level Intervention to Improve Attendance and Adherence among Patients on Anti-retroviral Treatment in Kenya: A Quasi-experimental Study Using Time Series Analysis
Achieving high rates of adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-poor settings comprises serious, but different, challenges in both the f…
Hospital Autonomy: The Experience of Kenyatta National Hospital
Abstract An increasing number of countries are exploring the introduction or expansion of autonomous hospitals as one of the numerous health reforms t…
Lea Mimba Project Overview
In 2017, with funding by UK Aid from the British people, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) launched the Lea Mimba project to address gaps in the qu…
The Economic Cost of Non-adherence to TB Medicines Resulting from Stock-outs and Loss to Follow-up in Kenya
One of the key elements of successful tuberculosis (TB) control programs is adherence to treatment, which is a cornerstone of most international and n…
Mobilizing Advocates from Civil Society (MACS): Advocacy and Accountability for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
Clinical and Financial Implications of Medicine Consumption Patterns at a Leading Referral Hospital in Kenya to Guide Future Planning of Care
In Kenyatta National Hospital, a leading hospital in Kenya, over 30% of expenditure is currently allocated to medicines, and this needs to be optim…