Making products available among community health workers: Evidence for improving community health supply chains from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Rwanda

Abstract

A UNICEF review of the challenges to scaling up integrated community case management (iCCM) found that drug shortages were a common bottleneck. In many settings, little thought has gone into the design of supply chains to the community level and limited evidence exists for how to address these unique challenges. SC4CCM’s purpose was to conduct intervention research to identify proven, simple, affordable solutions that address the unique supply chain challenges faced by CHWs and to demonstrate that supply chain constraints at the community level can be overcome.

Keywords

• Integrated Community Case Management
• iCCM
• products
• Community Health Workers
• CHWs
• supply chains
• Ethiopia
• Malawi
• Rwanda