E-DRUG: Digital health technologies to support access to medicines & pharmaceutical services
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Dear e-drug members,
Please find below the link to a new open-access paper published in
SAGE's *Digital Health: *
Digital Health Technologies to Support Access to Medicines and
Pharmaceutical Services in the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals”
<https://goo.gl/EtmRrW>
This paper summarizes intersectional approaches to institutionalize more
than 35 customized digital health technologies that promote access to
medicines and pharmaceutical services.
It includes five case studies: a dashboard module to help reduce
contraceptives stock-outs in Bangladesh; an electronic dispensing tool for
antiretroviral therapy in Namibia; a digital medicines registration system
in Mozambique; products warehousing technology in Uganda; and a medicines
management logistics system in Mali.
The paper also describes how this work will set the stage for advocacy and
policy changes and future research to track progress toward SDG 3 targets
as part of the UN's Voluntary National Reviews.
The work reflects multi-year initiatives by USAID-funded pharmaceutical
systems strengthening programs.
The open-access paper can be accessed at:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2055207618771407
Best regards,
Timothe
Timothe Chevaux
Communications Associate
Pharmaceuticals & Health Technologies
Management Sciences for Health
US-VA-Arlington-All United States
E-mail: tchevaux@msh.org