Towards a Tool for Malaria Supply Chain Management Improvement in Rural Ghana

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:216:1006.

Abstract

The maintenance of adequate quantities of antimalarial medicines and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) at health facilities in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa is a challenging task because of poor supply chain management. Antimalarial stock-outs in the communities could lead patients (that need to travel long distances to get medications) to remain untreated, develop severe malaria and die. A prototype to improve the management of health commodities in rural Ghana through the visualization of current stock levels and the forecasting of commodities is proposed.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antimalarials / supply & distribution*
  • Diagnostic Tests, Routine / statistics & numerical data
  • Ghana
  • Humans
  • Malaria / diagnosis
  • Malaria / prevention & control*
  • Models, Organizational
  • Point-of-Care Testing / statistics & numerical data*
  • Resource Allocation / organization & administration*
  • Rural Health Services / organization & administration*
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface

Substances

  • Antimalarials