Prompted by recent changes to the public health supply chain landscape, including the ever-increasing importance of modernising these, PEPFAR, USAID, The Global Fund and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation convened the Africa Supply Chain Roundtable. This roundtable used an innovative approach designed to provide opportunities to share country lessons and private sector content alongside bilaterals between all donors and individual countries.
Ministries of health from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria and Uganda, as well as representatives from the private sector and other stakeholders were invited to share their expertise and learn from one another on strengthening supply chains for medicines and health commodities.
With varying policy frameworks for transforming supply chains and different challenges in the regions represented, the primary goal of the roundtable sessions led by ARC was to identify fresh solutions, develop new partnerships, affirm support from donor organisations to governments and establish joint commitment to accelerating the change and transformation of supply chains in Africa.