A place to share and discuss key information impacting HIV/AIDS and supply chains. We encourage you to download documents, suggest resources and develop the Community Center as a helpful space to collaborate. Together we can ensure a reliable, cost-effective and secure supply of high-quality medicines and health products for HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment.
Stay tuned for upcoming 2012 events! Until then, take a look at SCMS's past participation from 2011, and earlier archives.
SCMS participates in a number of conferences and events to share our innovative approach to integrated supply chain operations. SCMS encourages you to download posters and presentations we made at these conference and key documents from landmark events.
Key Themes
Forecasting and Supply Planning
What's New:
Monitoring and evaluation indicators
WHO published the early-warning indicators for preventing stock-outs and overstocking of ARVs, antituberculosis and antimalaria medicines. This assists in tracking performance of national PSM systems and preventing frequent stock-outs and overstocking. Indicators will alert managers to system areas requiring technical support.
What's New: Study confirms HIV treatment prevents transmission of HIV.
HPTN 052 trial results show that if an HIV-positive person adheres to an effective antiretroviral therapy regimen, the risk of transmitting the virus to their uninfected sexual partner can be reduced by 96%.
PEPFAR fact sheet on smart investments highlights SCMS
A new fact sheet from PEPFAR outlines ways that programs are ‘getting a bigger bang for the buck.’ The fact sheet cites SCMS’s efforts to reduce shipping costs by switching from air freight to sea and land. In addition, it highlights success in driving down the cost of ARVs and current activities to support male circumcision: two initiatives that our work greatly impacts.
Supply Chain Integration: Seamlessly Linking the Pieces
The overall goal of integrating actors, levels, and functions in the supply chain is to improve customer service for public health commodities. Integration strives to take a holistic approach that acknowledges the dynamic elements in a system and how the various characteristics are interconnected.
This collaborative portal was created for members of the HIV/AIDS community to share information on supply chain efforts worldwide including innovative tools ranging from laboratory harmonization key documents to a guide on reporting problems to the FDA.
Sign up for USAID's AIDSTAR-One HIV Prevention email updates. This monthly newsletter shares the latest events, studies and articles related to HIV/AIDS prevention. The resource is packed with reports, guidelines and tools linked to health systems supply chain management. Check out the November 2011 issue, which highlights news on HIV treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis.
AIDSTAR-One: New in HIV Treatment
Read the latest in HIV treatment guideline tools, costing models and more from AIDSTAR-One. This resource covers treatment regimen summaries from over 50 countries, summaries of the core programmatic components of emerging areas in HIV programming, and narratives that document how effective HIV programs work – from idea to intervention. Access the resource.
E-learning through USAID
USAID’s e-learning center offers a range of courses in public health, including several specific to HIV/AIDS. Access the website.
Educational Video
In It to Save Lives, Scaling Up Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision View the USAID/PEPFAR production to learn about voluntary medical male circumcision in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Read a first-hand account of our efforts - SCMS: Providing Life-Saving Medicines in Haiti - from an SCMS client relations and activity coordinator in the field. Read the story
USAID slideshow
The SCMS slideshow features photographs that illustrate our daily efforts to bring lifesaving drug to millions of individuals. Beyond these images, we include some of our core messages about smart investments, cost savings and more. See the photos
PLoS Medicine
Check out SCMS's collaborative article:Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision: Logistics, Commodities, and Waste Management Requirements for Scale-Up of Services. Access the article
To commemorate the anniversary of SCMS, we are putting a human face to our work in health systems strengthening, reporting from field offices and programs around the world. The stories contained in this issue of Supply Lines bring to life the impact SCMS is having on countries, institutions and, most importantly, the individuals receiving treatment.
