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. 2016 Sep 29;4(3):359-65.
doi: 10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00130. Print 2016 Sep 28.

Moving Medicine, Moving Minds: Helping Developing Countries Overcome Barriers to Outsourcing Health Commodity Distribution to Boost Supply Chain Performance and Strengthen Health Systems

Priya Agrawal  1 , Iain Barton  2 , Roberto Dal Bianco  3 , Dana Hovig  4 , David Sarley  4 , Prashant Yadav  5
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Moving Medicine, Moving Minds: Helping Developing Countries Overcome Barriers to Outsourcing Health Commodity Distribution to Boost Supply Chain Performance and Strengthen Health Systems

Priya Agrawal et al. Glob Health Sci Pract. .

Abstract

Senegal and other developing countries are improving access to health commodities by outsourcing supply chain logistics to private providers. To achieve broader, lasting reform, we must support further adoption of the outsourced model; assist country-led cost-benefit analyses; and help governments build capacity to manage contracts and overcome other barriers.

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Employees of Cabit, a 3PL hired to handle last‐mile distribution of contraceptives and other health commodities, record consumption and delivery data in a stock room of a health center in the Fatick region of Senegal.
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