E-DRUG: QuanTB - now available for download
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Dear Colleagues,
The USAID-funded, MSH-led Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program just released QuanTB. QuanTB is an electronic forecasting, quantification, and early warning tool designed to improve procurement processes, ordering, and planning for tuberculosis (TB) treatment.
Ensuring that patients have continuous access to TB treatment requires complex projections and calculations by program staff. These projections are becoming more challenging as new diagnostic tools rapidly increase the number of individuals diagnosed, and thus the quantities of medicines needed.
If treatment regimens change, national programs must plan carefully for phasing in and out various medicines in order to manage the risks of stock out. QuanTB improves this process by combining two different methods of quantification, morbidity and consumption, to produce a more accurate estimate.
You can access a free download of QuanTB in both English and Russian at www.siapsprogram.org/quantb<http://www.siapsprogram.org/quantb>\.
Please direct any questions and comments to quantb@msh.org<mailto:quantb@msh.org>.
Best,
Kiley
Kiley Workman
Project Associate
Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services
Management Sciences for Health
4301 N. Fairfax Dr. Suite 400, Arlington, VA 22203
Email: kworkman@msh.org
Website: http://siapsprogram.org/