Analytical report low-value grants for public monitoring of the delivery and availability of medicines

Analytical report low-value grants for public monitoring of the delivery and availability of medicines

August 27, 2020

The UNDP Low-Value Grants project for public monitoring of the local delivery and availability of medicines and medical devices procured by UNDP for the Ministry of Health of Ukraine (MoH) has two main goals. These are: 1) to undertake an independent, third-party assessment to provide UNDP with real-life information about the availability and access to treatments that UNDP procures, and 2) to develop the capacity of Ukrainian patients organisations to conduct autonomous, impartial studies. Launched in 2017, this project involves working with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to collect data on the procurement of medicines and medical products and their distribution to local health care facilities in different oblasts. It also aims to understand the overall level of satisfaction of patients and physicians with the volumes and timing of deliveries. This round of monitoring analysed 132 medicines (see the Appendix) and covered 11 oblasts: Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Lviv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Ternopil, Vinnytsia, Volyn and Zhytomyr.

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