Supply Chain of HIV Drugs Assessment

Partner:

CHAI PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Period:

2012-2016

Platform Used:

NUNTIUM CLOUD SERVICE, NUNTIUM LOCAL GATEWAY

Location:

Papua New Guinea

Summary

Improving HIV drug order placement can help get the right drugs to the sites that need them, as well as be used to detect inconsistencies and outliers in drug distribution.

InSTEDD worked together with CHAI Papua New Guinea on improving logistics of HIV drug distribution to the sites that need it. Sites place orders that may or may not match patient needs and doctors at sites may or may not be following recommended regimens. Improving order placement can help get the right drugs to the site as well as be used to detect inconsistencies and outliers in drug distribution. InSTEDD’s mobile phone gateways running on Android, which allows the applications to share a Google Android-based ‘gateway’ that sends and receives text messages and stores-and-forwards them to the actual application. This system helps eliminate stock-outs at sites* as well as reduce losses to 0.5% of yearly order* (Includes expiration, pilfering, damage).

Announcement

InSTEDD would like to express our sincere appreciation to all of our partners for the years of exceptional collaboration with the InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia and for your contribution to its success in providing important solutions for social good.

Our original vision when we established the iLabSEA was that it would ultimately become a separate entity, locally owned and operated, in a model that provides social benefit and fits within the local economy. After 13 years of service to our local community, we are thrilled to announce that InSTEDD has closed our iLabSEA and the team from the LabSEA has now established an independent social enterprise organization, Kawsang.

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