Reproductive health supplies – recommendations on availability, quality and affordability
22/12/2017
Seminar on access to quality medicines and supplies for sexual reproductive health and rights – SRHR
Co-organised by: Be-cause health Working group on Access to quality medicines together with Working group on Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights
This seminar brought together researchers and practitioners who exchanged insights and share good practices with regards to ensuring access to a full range of affordable, quality reproductive health supplies in low- and middle-income countries: including a high level panel :
- Reproductive Health supplies: a question of availability, equity, quality and choice, key note speech by Brian McKenna (Deputy Director, Reproductive health Supplies Coalition).
- Quality of Reproductive Health Supplies: is it getting any better?, key note speech by Rutendo Kuwana (WHO Essential Medicines Department)
- UNFPA supplies – Addressing Challenges re: Availibilty, Quality, Affordability, by Ben Light, UNFPA (Senior Policy Adviser, Brussels office)
- Integrating the Private Sector into Last Mile Supply Chains: Lessons from Senegal, by Betty Hannoun, MSD for Mothers (Executive Director, Supply Chain Management)
- RH Supplies: Insights from an INGO, by Jason Bower, Marie Stopes International (Senior Pharmaceutical Advisor, MSI UK)
- The Access to Medicine Index and SRHR, by Damiano de Felice and Mariana Roldao Santos, Access to Medicine Foundation
Notes of the seminar with insights and recommendations are now available
Read and watch a partly recording of the session here
