supply chain management

ABSTRACT The report of the Office of the Inspector General on its audit of grants to Viet Nam was very complimentary of the country’s progress in program impact, financial management internal controls, governance and assurance mechanisms. The OIG praised Viet Nam’s decision to integrate HIV and TB treatment into the national health insurance scheme, but said that the integration presented a number of challenges and risks.

ABSTRACT We need to work with the OIG more on agreed management actions to try to make the timelines and deliverables more realistic, Marijke Wijnroks says in the Annual Report of the Interim Executive Director 2017, prepared for the Board meeting just concluded in Geneva, Switzerland. This article summarizes what Wijnroks said about AMAs and about supply chain transformation; grant-making; “Fit for the Future”; Gavi and the Global Health Campus; and the transition to the new E.D., Peter Sands.

ABSTRACT The Technical Review Panel and the Grant Approvals Committee applauded the “appropriately targeted investments” in prevention programs, and the access to testing and treatment services in the HIV funding request submitted by the Philippines. However, the country’s matching funds request was sent back for iteration.

ABSTRACT Most of the Office of the Inspector General’s 2016 annual report is devoted to a discussion of five strategic themes that emerged from the work of the OIG in 2016. Service quality tops the list of thematic areas.

ABSTRACT Grant implementation arrangements for Global Fund grants to Côte d’Ivoire were “partially effective,” the Office of the Inspector General said as a result of an audit conducted in 2016. The OIG rated supply chain controls and assurance mechanisms one rung lower, at “needing significant improvement.”

ABSTRACT After more than 10 years of political instability and violent security crises, Côte d'Ivoire, supported in part by the Global Fund, is working to rebuild its battered supply chain, paying special attention to the once-restive west.

ABSTRACT The HIV response in the world’s newest nation faces a catalogue of challenges including insecurity and stock management, displacement away from the urban health facilities of people living with HIV and the evacuation from the country of international medical personnel during times of crisis.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund is participating in an initiative, the Pledge Guarantee for Health, which leverages private sector funding to speed up the delivery of health products.

ABSTRACT New minimum standards for implementers adopted by the Global Fund apply to principal recipients, large sub-recipients, public- or private-sector entities involved in the pharmaceutical and health products procurement and supply chain, and components of the national health system. The minimum standards will apply to early applicants under the new funding model.

ABSTRACT A report published recently in a medical journal has focussed renewed attention on the problem of donated malaria drugs being stolen and then sold in the private sector in Africa.