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Welcome to the SCMS Resource Center

This collaborative portal was created for members of the HIV/AIDS community to discuss and share information on supply chain efforts worldwide. We encourage you to download documents, suggest resources and develop the Resource Center as a helpful virtual 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.

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Forecasting and Supply Planning Center


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Download Forecasting and Supply Planning Tech Brief 

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Procurement Center


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    Warehousing and Distribution Center


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    Access Freight Forwarding Tech Brief

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    Collaboration Center


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    Download WHO report - "Towards universal access: scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector" 

     

     
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    New Procurement & Supply Management (PSM) Toolbox website

    The World Heath Organization/AIDS Medicines and Diagnostics Service and its partner organizations initiated the development of a unique PSM Toolbox website for HIV-related health commodities. The PSM Toolbox website features a user-friendly search engine, regularly updated content, a forum to share tool use experiences and more. In addition, an offline version of the PSM Toolbox is available on CD-ROM free of charge.


    Guide on Reporting Problems to the FDA

    Consumers play an important public health role by reporting to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) any adverse events (unexpected side effects) after using a medical product, or other problems with any products that the agency regulates. Timely reporting allows the agency to take prompt action. There are a number of ways you can report problems to the agency, depending on the type of problem and product. The following tips and chart will help you make your report. Learn More


    AIDSTAR-One website

    The AIDSTAR-One website includes 33 national treatment guidelines from 28 countries including guidelines on Adult, Adolescent, and Pediatric ART, PMTCT, Adherence and Retention, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PreP), Community Based Treatment and others. The guidelines are updated quarterly and include a synopsis and summary table of each country's treatment guideline. AIDSTAR-One.com features HIV and AIDS-related resources, including a searchable database of good and promising programmatic practices, technical briefs and case studies on successful programs and emerging approaches and other useful tools. Learn More


    Funders Concerned About AIDS report - "U.S. Philanthropic Support to Address HIV/AIDS in 2008" (November 2009).

    FCAA’s new resource tracking report provides new information on 2008 HIV/AIDS grantmaking among 345 U.S.-based private philanthropic institutions. This year’s report includes a list of the top 72 funders who disbursed $300,000 (U.S.) or more to HIV/AIDS in 2008, as well as analysis of funds by geographical region and by intended use, the top three main population groups to which their funding was directed, and grantmaker forecasts for funding increases or decreases in 2009. Learn More


    Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention,

    A global resource center on male circumcision research, program implementation, documentation, and information. This portal provides a growing number of tools for policy makers and program implementers and those involved in designing and executing programs that offer male circumcision as an HIV risk-reduction strategy for heterosexual men. Learn More
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    SCMS Publications: Access SCMS World AIDS Day letter to colleagues


    Supply Lines: SCMS's newsletter: February 2010 Issue focuses on lower supply chains costs.


    Conference & Events: SCMS presents at the 5th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention.


    Community Contributions: USAID's Consultation Document - Implementation of the Global Health Initiative


    Interviews: Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, Minister of Health: Creating a quality supply chain in Guyana for quality health care.


    Technical Briefs - Quality Assurance:  A robust quality assurance (QA) system helps to ensure the efficacy and safety of medicines, quality and safety of foods and suitability of supplies for care and treatment.

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    The Supply Chain Management System (scms) is implemented by the Partnership for Supply Chain Management, Inc. This website was made possible through the support of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) under the terms of contract no. GPO-I-00-05-00032-00. The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of USAID or the US government.

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