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Botswana has adopted a compelling, long-term vision to have no new AIDS infections by 2016.


The Government of Botswana has declared HIV/AIDS a national emergency. Committed to an aggressive, comprehensive and expansive multisectoral response to curb the impact of the disease, the country has adopted a compelling, long-term vision to have no new HIV infections by 2016. Botswana was one of the first countries in Africa to establish a national HIV/AIDS treatment program, initiating the Botswana Antiretroviral (ARV) Program over five years ago.


SCMS supports the Government of Botswana's effort through technical assistance to the Central Medical Stores (CMS), the Drug Regulatory Unit (DRU), Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) Unit, National ARV Programme (MASA) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Unit and Laboratory Services to strengthen the supply chain system for ARV medications, infant formula and HIV test kits and laboratory commodities.

 

SCMS focuses on building a sustainable strengthened health commodities supply chain system through human resource capacity development, defined as strengthened institutional, organizational and individual capacities of the Ministry of Health (MOH) to manage predetermined key outcome areas of supply chain management.


Key Objectives

By 2013:

  • Ensure that accurate logistics data for vital and essential health commodities is being regularly recorded and reported by each service delivery point/site for replenishment and supply planning purposes.
  • Strengthen the national quality assurance system for health commodities procured, stored, and distributed in country.
  • Attain efficient customer-focused warehousing and distribution operations that ensure best practices in managing products, processing orders, and delivering orders to customers.



Activities and Impact


Date management:  Develop and implement a national logistics information management system for HIV/AIDS products and ensure that accurate logistics data is aggregated, analyzed and disseminated for decision-making.

Quality assurance: Support MOH in designing an accreditation or certification standard for its supply chain, and implement a system to enable logistics management at hospitals and clinics to meet quality assurance standards.  Support the DRU in increasing the range of registered formulations and suppliers to promote access to quality vital and essential drugs.


Strategic planning and coordination: Strengthen the coordinating mechanism at the MOH level for supply chain management-related information sharing and decision-making.


Forecasting and planning: Provide technical assistance to the MOH technical team preparing realistic and demand-driven (evidence-based) 24-month forecasts and annual supply plans that are implemented and reviewed quarterly to support an accurate procurement process.


Procurement: Institutionalize standardized tools to support a responsive demand driven procurement system that provides at least 90 percent of high-quality HIV/AIDS products to meet facility demands. This is in addition to:

  • Strengthening capacity for the decentralized Public Procurement & Asset Disposal Board structures to efficiently process tenders for health commodity procurements.
  •  Developing a responsive SCMS procurement system, and providing technical assistance for product specifications, supply planning and procurement of health-related commodities/services at best value to meet client needs in a timely manner.


Warehousing and distribution: Support human resource capacity development to ensure that the CMS is fully operational, cost-effective, standardized, and the warehousing and distribution system fully addresses client needs.

CONTACT FOR BOTSWANA


Richard Msowoya
Country Director


Address:
Plot 111, Unit 4+5 Gaborone
International Finance Park
PO Box 26376 Game City
Gaborone, Botswana


T. 267.316.5206
F. 267.316.5207

rmsowoya@bw.pfscm.org

 

Map of Botswana

RELATED CONTENT


Botswana Poster:
“Health Commodities Storage Best Practices ”


Crown Agents report:
“Central Medical Stores in Botswana: Transformation from Within (SCMS)” (August 2012)


NPR report:
"Botswana's 'Stunning Achievement' Against AIDS" (July 9, 2012)


In Brief:
"In Botswana - Transforming supply chains, transforming lives" (April 2012)


USAID IMPACT blog:
"The health preofessional crisis: A personal perspective" (June 16, 2011)


Botswana Poster: "Strengthening Supply Chains for Sustainable Healthcare Access in Botswana"


Botswana Poster: "Transforming supply chains, transforming lives"


Botswana Poster: "Integrating Commodity Tracking Systems to Strengthen the Health Supply Chain"


Botswana Poster: "Strengthening Logistics Systems to Ensure Reliable Supply of Laboratory Commodities"


Botswana Poster: "Central Medical Stores: Transformation from Within"
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.