- West Africa Medicines Regulation Harmonization Initiative

Author: SAIPS

Category: Medical Products Dossier Evaluation and Registration

Language: English

Description: Transition of the HIV and AIDS Commodity Management Tool (OSPSIDA) to the West African Health Organization and Cameroon: Lessons Learned and Recommendations

Abstract: The US Agency for International Development’s West African office (USAID/WA) has requested SIAPS, which is implemented by Management Sciences for Health, to provide support to six countries in the West and Central African region—Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Guinea, Niger, and Togo—to establish a web-based regional dashboard (OSPSIDA.org) that will create an early warning system (EWS) to monitor HIV and AIDS commodities and to detect and minimize the risk of stock-out in the focus countries. In pursuit of this objective, and to ensure local ownership and long-term sustainability, WAHO has been involved since the project’s inception and has provided useful input during the design phase and official launch in Accra in April 2014. However, for the long-term sustainability of the dashboard and in an effort to support WAHO’s strategy of setting up security stock for West African countries, it is necessary to transfer the dashboard to WAHO’s Essential Medicines and Vaccines Program (EMVP) as its final home. Because Cameroon is not part of WAHO, SIAPS also worked closely with CNLS to transfer the management of OSPSIDA in Cameroon.

Essential Medicines & Vaccines

Technical report OSPSIDA