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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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Outcome Harvesting Highlight: Primary Health Care Performance (PHC-PM) Activity
The PHC-PM Activity is transforming district health systems in Ghana and Rwanda. By equipping health management teams with leadership skills, data-dri…
Safe, Affordable, and Effective Medicines for Ukrainians (SAFEMed) Activity – November 2025 Monthly Newsletter and Success Story
Safe, Affordable, and Effective Medicines for Ukrainians (SAFEMed) Activity – October 2025 Monthly Newsletter
Uganda Health Supply Chain Briefer
The USAID-funded and MSH-led Uganda Health Supply Chain (UHSC) project aims to improve the health of all Ugandans by increasing the availability, acce…
Improving Equitable Access to Essential Medicines and Health Supplies Using a Needs-based Allocation Formula
A good health system ensures equitable and consistent access to quality essential medicines and health supplies. Health equity is prioritized in Ugand…
Implementing a Web-based Pharmaceutical Information Portal in Uganda
Public pharmaceutical-sector managers in Uganda previously relied on information gathered from multiple sources to plan for and manage health supplies…
Scale Up of RxSolution eLMIS in Uganda
To ensure an uninterrupted supply of essential medicines and effectively monitor store management in health facilities, the Uganda Ministry of Health …
Improving Appropriate Medicine Use Through Hospital Medicines and Therapeutics Committees
Using SPARS to Strengthen District Capacity to Manage and Utilize Health Commodities
Integrating Oxytocin into the Vaccine Cold Chain to Improve Management of Post-Partum Haemorrhage in Uganda
MSH, through an Innovation Fund grant of the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition, and with contribution from the USAID-funded Uganda Health Supply …
Final Report: Integrating Oxytocin Into the EPI Cold Chain
Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) remains one of the major causes of maternal mortality. The World Health Organization recommends oxytocin as the most effec…
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…
Competency in Supportive Supervision: A Study of Public Sector Medicines Management Supervisors in Uganda
Uganda’s Ministry of Health in 2012 implemented a comprehensive strategy (SPARS) to build medicines management capacity in public sector health fac…
An Exploratory Study on Equity in Funding Allocation for Essential Medicines and Health Supplies in Uganda’s Public Sector
Abstract Background To ascertain equity in financing for essential medicines and health supplies (EMHS) in Uganda, this paper explores the relationshi…
Supervision, Performance Assessment, and Recognition Strategy (SPARS): A Multipronged Intervention Strategy for Strengthening Medicines Management in Uganda: Method Presentation and Facility Performance at Baseline
Uganda introduced a multipronged intervention, the supervision, performance assessment, and recognition strategy (SPARS), to improve medicines mana…