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Assessment Report of the Pharmaceutical Fund and Supply Agency /PFSA-Woreda Health office Interface for Strengthening Pharmaceutical Sector, 2018

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Id	EPHI-DS0267
Name	Assessment Report of the Pharmaceutical Fund and Supply Agency /PFSA-Woreda Health office Interface for Strengthening Pharmaceutical Sector, 2018
Format	. SAV
Coverage Location	National
Coverage Sex	Both
Abstract	This cross-sectional survey was conducted in 40 woredas and 13 hubs located in Amhara, Oromia, SNNPR, and Tigray Regions and AA City Administration between May 2 to May 11, 2018. The objective of this assessment was to accelerate the sustainable availability of essential medicines at service delivery points per Woreda by identifying enabling factors and challenges to further strengthening PFSA- Woreda Health offices interface and partnerships. The finding of this survey showed the following. On average, each PFSA hub is supplying about 297 public health facilities (274 health centers and 23 hospitals). Almost all hospitals and nearly half of the health centers are directly supplied by the hubs. The rest half of the health centers are supplied via pass-through WoHOs. The primary source of RDF products for facilities under the Woreda catchment is PFSA and private 84.2% and 31.6% respectively. Challenges that currently exist around PFSA-WoHO communication and partnership are lack of joint plan and review of SCM, dragging of IPLS implementation(woreda piece), lack of supply chain ownership at WoHO leadership level, skill gap at both ends, no structural linkage between PFSA and WoHO, no clear role and responsibility on reporting of overstock, and haphazard budgeting mechanisms for RDF commodities at WoHO level. All PFSA hubs and WoHOx strongly agreed that pharmaceutical supply chain management takes a lion's share in the Woreda transformation agendas; the transformation agendas will not be practical without a sustainable supply of health commodities.
Additional Material	No
Keywords	Pharmaceutical Fund and Supply Agenc Pharmaceutical Ethiopia
Recommended	Yes
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Cleaned	Yes
Cleaned Format	. csdb
RawFormat	. csdb
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Date Data Collection Started	2018-05-02
Date Data Collection End	2018-05-11
Title	Assessment Report of the Pharmaceutical Fund and Supply Agency /PFSA-Woreda Health office Interface for Strengthening Pharmaceutical Sector, 2018
Data Type	Survey
PublicationYear	2018
SugestedCitation	no
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Description	The dataset on PFSA-Woreda Health office Interface for Strengthening Pharmaceutical Sector was a mixed survey conducted between May 2, 2018, to May 11, 2018, in 40 woredas and 13 hubs located in Amhara, Oromia, SNNPR, and Tigray Regions, and Addis Ababa City Administration. Key informants' in-depth interview was conducted with higher officials at the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), Central PFSA, Regional Health Bureaus (RHB), and Zonal Health Departments (ZHD) for the qualitative component. Electronic data collection was applied using SurveyCTO software and descriptive statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS version 24. This dataset captures information on the proportion of health facilities supplied by the hubs, availability of pharmaceutical supply management and pharmacy service unit/department to WoHO, currently, and existing challenges, and reasons for perceived weak collaboration were assessed.
Dataset study design	Longitudinal
Date Data Archived	2021-05-22
Date Data Cataloged	2021-06-10
Data Generating Unit	NGO
URL	https://rtds.ephi.gov.et/public/showdetail/267
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