Solving Systems & Management challenges throughout Africa
Services
PharmaSystAfrica offers an extensive and comprehensive array of services to help developing countries implement best-in-class pharmaceutical supply management systems.
- 01. System and needs assessments
- 02. Procurement, including quantification of needs and resource rationalization
- 03. Pharmaceutical management information systems
- 04. Evidence-based practices (adaptation and implementation research)
- 05. Capacity building, including pre-service and in-service training
Our Team
PharmaSystAfrica is an in-country, team-owned organization. We provide a wide range of skills and expertise in the pharmaceutical supply and management value chain within country contexts. Our staff is composed of experienced health technicians including public health doctors, health economists, hospital managers, pharmacists, social economists and logisticians.
Team
Lloyd Matowe
Tolbert Nyenswah
Shittu Mutiu
Olen Hamatanga
Paul Forbes
Paul Kutyabami
Resources
Medicines supply chain ‘overwhelmed’ by Ebola crisis
Health workers and volunteers read out handouts to local villagers on how to protect themselves from ebola virus, Liberia. (Source: Rex Features / Eyepress / SIPA) Pharmacists working in West Africa have spoken about the overwhelming scale of the challenges they have faced in Liberia in the battle against the Ebola virus. They paint a picture of...
Make investigational Ebola drugs available, say ethicists
Drugs in development can be used for the treatment of Ebola, an international panel of ethics experts has recommended to the World Health Organization. Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director general of the World Health Organization, told the media that compassionate use of experimental treatments provided an opportunity to “right a wrong” (Source:...
Initiative sees pharmacists offer Ebola advice in Liberian drug stores
World Health Organization takes steps to dampen public expectation about the potential of drugs in development to fight the virus. Liberians read the ’daily talk’ chalkboard on the Ebola crisis in the capital Monrovia. According to statistics from the World Health Organization, as of 16 August 2014, 1,229 people have died from Ebola in West...