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Stop Stock-outs Campaign: Uganda. Kibira Denis (MPS) HEPS-UGANDA 27 th May 2010. Context.
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Stop Stock-outs Campaign: Uganda Kibira Denis (MPS) HEPS-UGANDA 27th May 2010
Context • In Uganda, according to the Pharmaceutical Situation Assessment-Level II-Health Facility Survey Report 2008 of Ministry of Health, only 45.7% public health facilities had a basket of 28 essential medicines. The duration of stock-outs in these facilities in 2007-8 averaged 2.5months per year • Medicines are free in the public sector; in the private sector they cost 3-5 times more than international reference prices
Methods • CSO coalition/alliances • Partnerships with other stakeholders; MoH, Private sector through MeTA • Champions: Patients, MPs and local artists • Monitoring Medicines availability and price survey reports by MoH/WHO/HAI (HEPS) • Campaign IEC material • Press conferences, public rallies and fora, radio talk shows • Community outreaches/road shows
Overall availability of 40 key medicines across sectors 2006-2009
Price trends of key antimalarial medicines in the private sector 2006-2009
Cont’d • Pill-check public campaigns
Achievements • Stop Stock-outs campaign has raised more awareness about the right to health and to access essential medicines in Uganda than ever before leading to wide media and public outcry • NMS responses to media articles and delivery schedules in news papers • NMS granted financial and operational autonomy • President and other politicians have come out to publicly condemn stock outs • Creation of Drug Monitoring Unit
Conclusion • The campaign has used evidence on availability and prices of medicines to highlight problem of access • It is now time to move on to more specific commodities especially RH supplies