From the American People
SPS is a global project that improves the availability of quality medicines and health commodities for priority interventions and promotes their appropriate use. Through SPS, USAID works closely with the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) to improve the rational use of medicine, build the capacity of the MoPH to manage pharmaceutical services, strengthen the capacity of the MoPH to ensure the quality of pharmaceutical products entering and used within the country, establish a coordinated procurement and distribution system, and design a system for MoPH procurement of pharmaceuticals. Through SPS, USAID brings essential medicine distribution together with strong technical assistance in pharmaceutical management to build on the work initiated under other projects. USAID helped establish the National Drug and Therapeutic Committee (NDTC) to improve the selection, procurement, distribution, and rational use of drugs. Drug and Therapeutics Committees have also been established in more than eight national, provincial, and district hospitals, and will be scaled up to additional hospitals during the next four years. USAID is also working with the Kabul University Faculty of Pharmacy to strengthen the curriculum to include the rational use of medicines and anti-microbial resistance and with the MoPH to develop and promote the use of Standard Treatment Guidelines in Basic Package of Health Services facilities across Afghanistan.
SPS Fact Sheet FINAL June 2011
19 June 2011 | Nangarhar, Afghanistan
SPS staff Dr. Sayed Afandi, Medical Director of the Jalalabad Public Health Hospital, reviews pharmacy records with Pharmacist Ziaulhaq. The 520-bed Jalalabad...
19 June 2011 | Kabul, Afghanistan
USAID/SPS Pharmacist Hasham provides medication counseling to parents for their sick child. The Ministry of Public Health maintains 53 pharmacy stores, which...
11 October 2010 | Kabul, Afghanistan
Prescribing too many antibiotics, wide discrepancies in treatment practices among doctors, lack of attention to drug interactions, and an unclear picture of what medicines are...
15 May 2010 | Kabul, Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Ministy of Public Health (MoPH), in collaboration with USAID’s Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) program, the World Health Organization, and Kabul Medical University, is developing...
6 April 2011 | Kabul, Afghanistan
USAID representatives joined the Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), members of Parliament, health officials, and the international community today to...
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