Support to members to improve their pharmaceutical supply chain and quality assurance
EPN sets to improve how well members select, procure, distribute and store medicines and medical supplies to ensure access to quality products at a fair price.
It promotes members’ initiatives, especially Drug Supply Organization (DSO) and health care delivery organizations (CHAs and CHIs) to ensure that effective selection, procurement, distribution and storage are followed, and good distribution practice (GDP) and quality assurance (QA) systems are implemented.
EPN supports members through Global Pharma Health Fund (GPHF) Minilab to raise awareness among their health facilities on the threat of substandard and falsified (SF) medicines and the importance of quality of medicines.
EPN promotes medicine quality by adopting the GPHF Minilab system in church health institutions. This ensures creation of good replicable practice to improve medicine safety in LMICs through detection of counterfeit medicines. EPN also facilitates knowledge-sharing among members using the GPHF Minilab across the African continent and in India.
Target outcome: increased quality awareness within the faith-based health sectors, and collaboration with local authorities.
Implementing partners: Association des Œuvres Médicales des Eglises pour la Santé en Centrafrique – ASSOMESCA (Central Africa Republic), Church Heath Association of Liberia, Presbyterian Churches of Cameroun-PCC, and Depot Central Medico-Pharmaceutique (DCMP) in DRC.
Country: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Central African Republic (CAR), and Liberia.
Goal: To improving access to affordable quality-assured medicines and medical products.
Implementing partners: Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda
Countries implemented: Missions for Essential Drugs Supplies (MEDS) -Kenya, Joint Medical Stores (JMS) in Uganda, Missions for Essential Medicines Supplies (MEMS) -Tanzania, and Bureau des Formations Médicales Agréées du Rwanda (BUFMAR) -Rwanda.
