SCMS World AIDS Day 2009 letter to colleagues
On this World AIDS Day, we celebrate what has been accomplished in such a short time. Working in partnership, countless governments, ministries of health, donors, non-government organizations, faith-based organizations and others have replaced resignation with hope for millions of people living with HIV/AIDS
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SCMS's Report: Three Years of Saving Lives
Overview of SCMS achievements during the past three years. As of December 31, 2008, SCMS had delivered $247 million in HIV/AIDS commodities, including $153.2 million of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, $39.8 million of HIV test kits and $42.8 million of laboratory supplies.
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SCMS Overview Brochure
SCMS works to strengthen existing supply chains in the field, buys and distributes essential medicines and health supplies, and facilitates collaboration and the exchange of information among key donors and other service providers.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Frequently asked questions - procuring commodities through SCMS
Learn how to work with SCMS on procuring products needed for a comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and treatment program.
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Frequently Asked Questions for Regional Distribution Centers
Learn how Regional distribution centers (RDCs) that operate in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa and are being used to store and distribute the most frequently requested essential medicines and other health products.
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Frequently Asked Questions - specialized food products
Learn about FBP (food by prescription) programs are providing food and nutrition interventions as part of clinical HIV care and treatment. The objective of FBP is to improve health, nutrition, antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence and survival outcomes.
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Frequently Asked Questions – Counterfeits
Learn about the issues of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and their implications for HIV/AIDS programs. Find out how SCMS is combating counterfeits by obtaining drugs directly from the manufacturer, using a regional distribution centers (RDC) system serving PEPFAR countries, and conducting selective sampling and physical examination of the drugs.
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Frequently Asked Questions - For Vendor and Supplier
Learn how SCMS selects suppliers and the kinds of products SCMS procures.
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In Brief: Focusing on the Big Picture
Integrated supply chains think beyong products, prices and delivery dates.
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Guyana in Brief
Strengthening systems to save lives: Ensuring an uninterrupted supply of quality medicines for people living with HIV/AIDS in Guyana.
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Mozambique In Brief
Donor Coordination in Mozambique: The Key to Expanding a Succesful Program.
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Rwanda In Brief
Coordinating Donor Funds to Scale Up HIV/AIDS Treatment in Rwanda: On the Road to Success.
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Food In Brief
Leveraging Supply Chain Best Practices for Food by Prescription Program.
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Botswana In Brief
In Botswana, Strengthening Drug Registration to Improve Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment.
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Côte d'Ivoire In Brief
Côte d’Ivoire’s New Community Reporting System Puts Data on the Fast Track.
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Namibia In Brief
In Namibia, Improvements to Warehousing Support Scale-up of HIV/AIDS Programs.
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Nigeria In Brief: In Nigeria, Building Local Capacity from Day One
From early 2008, SCMS worked with a new PEPFAR IP, the Nigerian Indigenous Capacity Building Project (NICaB) to design a logistics system that would roll-out in tandem with their ART site activation plan.
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Freight and Logistics In Brief
SCMS, the largest procurer of ARVs for PEPFAR programs, determined to reduce shipping costs in order to help clients redirect money saved for other purposes, including ARVs and other treatment and testing commodities.
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Quality Assurance In Brief
SCMS’s risk-based routine-drug-inspection sampling and testing program thus far has prevented counterfeit products from entering PEPFARsupported supply chains, yet substandard products have been reported.
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In Brief: Expanding Treatment by Saving Costs
Working in partnership with funders and clients, SCMS is establishing integrated supply chains that link multiple procurement functions and coordinate across stakeholders to lower costs for commodities, shipping, warehousing and distribution.
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Field Office Publications
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Ethiopia Commodity Security Brochure
Meeting the Challenge of Universal Access: Commodity Security through Systems and Coordination
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Ethiopia Distribution Brochure
Saving Lives and Costs in Redesigning Ethiopia’s ART Supply Chain System
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Ethiopia HACTS Brochure
HIV/AIDS Commodities Information Tracking System in Ethiopia: An Innovative Approach for Better Informed, More Rapid Decision-Making
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Ethiopia Laboratory Logistics Brochure
Ethiopian National Laboratory Logistics System: Overcoming Despair through a Systematic Response
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Ethiopia Monitoring and Evaluation Brochure
How a rapdily expanding public health chain in Ethiopia transitioned from an activity focused to a results-based management.
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Ethiopia Quantification Brochure
From NEED to PRODUCTS and SYSTEMS: Role of Quantification in the Rapid Scale-up of a Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Response
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Self-instructional Training for New Medicine Dispensers in Vietnam
The purpose of this report is to serve as the basis for publishable articles which will provide the international public health community with a description of how SCMS Vietnam planned, implemented and evaluated an underutilized, cost-effective and successful training methodology for dispensers antiretroviral medicines. That methodology consists of a self-instructional training manual.
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Reducing Stockout Rate of Essential Laboratory Supplies from 70% to 2% in One Year—The Zambian Experience
The 5th IASConference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention is held every two years, attracting about 5,000 delegates from all over the world. This conference brings together leading scientists, clinicians, public health experts and community leaders to examine the latest developments in HIV-related research, and to explore how scientific advances can inform the global response to HIV/AIDS.
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