Resources relating to Senegal

EACH STORY FROM THE FIELD PIECE NARRATES OUR WORK FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOMEONE WORKING AT ARC. TODAY, YACINE FATIME SHARES HER EXPERIENCE SUPPORTING HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING IN SENEGAL.

Each story from the field piece narrates our work from the perspective of someone working at ARC. Today, Alemayehu Lemma Wolde shares his experience supporting health systems strengthening in Ethiopia.

Ministries of health from Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and Guinea are holding a workshop to share knowledge and best practices in the field of supply chain management through data analytics.

Our work at ARC allows us to see first-hand what the ‘translation’ gaps are between the public and private sectors, and we believe there are five approaches that can significantly advance the success of collaboration between the two.

Providing reliable access to quality and affordable medicines and health products to communities continues to be a challenge for ministries of health in Francophone West Africa. In other instances, donor-funded public health interventions face sustainability challenges due to structural readiness.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) worked with its development partners, including ARC, Africa’s Public Health Supply Chain Institution, to create an informed push model to facilitate the effective delivery of medicines to the last mile to increase availability of medicines.

ARC developed this position paper on supply chain sustainability to contribute to knowledge and thought leadership. This paper describes five technical innovations ARC believes can sustain the availability of health products. ARC also makes recommendations for country ownership and governance.

The Global Health Supply Chain Summit takes place from 30 November to 02 December 2022 at CICAD DIAMNIADIO in Senegal. The Summit is expecting more than 300 participants. The theme of the Summit this year is “Rethinking Supply Chain and Health

In this position paper, ARC proposes five technical initiatives that can contribute to sustainable supply chains in public health delivery. It also makes recommendations for country ownership and governance to create an enabling environment for governments to adopt them, potentially with private sector assistance.

ARC is facilitating knowledge sharing and capacity building between private pharmaceutical companies and the public health supply chain.​