The problem
Though antiretroviral medicines for HIV were becoming more affordable in the early 2000s, both the availability and usage of key drugs remained limited because of challenges with supply management systems, quantification and forecasting mechanisms, and low demand for new tools. When supply chains break down, much-needed health products sit at docks and in warehouses undelivered and unused.
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Our response
We partnered with French governmental aid agency ESTHER to form ESTHERAID, which provided technical support to improve supply-chain management of health products in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic and Mali.
Over five years, the partnership built capacity to trace and improve delivery of pediatric antiretrovirals and second-line HIV treatments from central medical stores to local clinics.
The project tackled supply management and patient-data collection where poor diagnosis and monitoring of people living with HIV had led to low demand for pediatric and second-line antiretrovirals.
On 31 December 2014 ESTHER was merged into Expertise France, a new French agency delivering technical advice.
