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Stop Stock-outs Campaign in Uganda
Kibira Denis (MPS)
HEPS-UGANDA
25th March 2010
Outline of discussion
• Background
• Methods/activities
• Achievements
Background
• A ‘stock-out’ is when a pharmacy temporarily
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has no medicine/s on the shelf.
This results into grave consequences for
patients who may go without the medicines
they need, seek alternative and sometimes
inappropriate medicine or die.
The campaign to combat stock-outs is in five
African countries –Kenya, Malawi, Uganda,
Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Cont’d
• In Uganda, according to the Pharmaceutical
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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 cost 3-5 times more than int.
prices
The campaign is a civil society initiative to
advocate for improved availability of, and
access to, essential medicines in public
health facilities
Methods/activities
• CSO coalition
• Partnerships with other stakeholders; MoH,
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Private sector through MeTA, 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 and Pill check campaigns
Community outreaches/road shows
Cont’d
• Pill-check public campaigns
Achievements
• Stop Stock-outs campaign has raised more
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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
NMS granted financial and operational
autonomy
President and other politicians have come
out to publicly condemn stock outs
Creation of Drug Monitoring Unit
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