The supply and distribution of essential medicines in Malawi: summary findings - - Research reports and studies

The supply and distribution of essential medicines in Malawi: summary findings - - Research reports and studies Country Evidence January 2013 The supply and distribution of essential medicines in Malawi Leni Wild and Diana Cammack Introduction Country case studies and analysis are used to pilot and test more systematic ways of conducting political economy analysis in sectors, and to This report se. [...] at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), which seeks to provide practical advice and resources to Stock-outs of essential medicines can contribute to enable development practitioners to improve their a number of challenges for the Malawi health support to the delivery of key public goods and sector. [...] A number of political and governance dynamics, for Moreover, there appears to be significant district- example, exist in Malawi and have implications for level variation in terms of availability and cost of the health sector in general and medicine supply in medicines, which results in inequity of service particular. [...] This has contributed to a lack of contribute to medicine financial sustainability: district health officers (DHOs) have run up debts to the CMS to the stock-outs point where they have undermined its viability and that of medicine supply, which reflects a lack Chronic shortages of medicines reflect issues of of checks and balances horizontally (through resourcing, as the health sector, along with o. [...] Given the scale of the reforms with the government of Malawi examining being enacted (new management, staff, policies, decentralisation within the health sector and warehousing and so on), strategic change 4 The supply and distribution of essential medicines in Malawi current resource decisions for medicines supply.