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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.

What does it look like for women to experience equity in the healthcare supply chain in Africa?

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 and proposed two differentiated channel delivery models: one for rural and the other for urban recipients of care in Uganda.

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.

Truly patient-centric healthcare solutions are designed and developed with the patient in mind from the very beginning.

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

Public healthcare systems serve millions of people. Governments require complex systems and extensive management to provide care. To do this effectively, the patients the systems are created to serve have in many cases been reduced to numbers rather than people. What will it take to reimagine healthcare in Africa for patients as people first?

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.

Creating patient-centred healthcare requires that the patient’s voice be central to decision-making. This begs the question as to what extent patients’ voices can effect change in the healthcare systems that serve them?