Resources relating to Differentiated channel delivery

Each story from the field piece narrates our work from the perspective of someone working at ARC. Today, Le Beau Taljaard shares his experience supporting health systems strengthening in Uganda.

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.

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.

A new programme in Uganda is helping to make chronic medicines available more conveniently while decongesting healthcare centres.

The Ugandan Ministry of Health’s AIDS Control Programme approached the ARC to explore possible alternative drug distribution models suitable for the Ugandan context. ARC is applying learnings and feedback from the pilot phase to refine and extend the reach of the two approaches.

ARC is supporting the ministry of health by evaluating two last mile distribution pilots and contributing to its health products strengthening plan.

The value of Differentiated Channel Delivery (DCD) is becoming increasingly clear for healthcare in Africa.

Can governments in Africa really hope to achieve patient-centric supply chains? Yes, they certainly can. However, there are some existing barriers that have slowed down the rate of patient-centric supply chains being developed.

The health supply chain is much more complicated than delivering consumer goods, but maybe it doesn’t have to be.