Access programme overview

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EPN Access to medicines project document [.doc 87KB] [.pdf 60KB]

Project goal

Increase in positive health outcomes.

Project purpose

To increase church-related health services’ provision of effective and efficient pharmaceutical services.

Project objective

To promote and facilitate church-related health services’ adherence to EPN’s guidelines for increasing access to essential medicines.

Phase 1 activities:

To support the development of the project and draw up and prioritize a list of guidelines and indicators for those guidelines to be used in the project.
To carry out a baseline survey of existing compliance with the EPN guidelines (initially in six countries, Malawi, Ghana, Uganda, Togo, Cameroon, and Tanzania).
To present results to members and partners in-country and to a wider audience.

Phase 2 activities:

To fundraise for the development of a country plan of interventions.
To facilitate the development of country-specific plans for increasing compliance (completed in Malawi and Ghana).
To fundraise for the implementation of interventions.
To facilitate the implementation of country-specific plans.

Following the identification of levels of compliance with the guidelines by church-related health services (CHS) for each country, the local team will design a project plan to increase compliance. They will then implement this plan.

Key to the project methodology are the 23 EPN-recommended guidelines for increasing access to essential medicines and the role of documented lesson learning through the Network that increases the efficiency of each country’s efforts—lessons learnt in achieving success in one country are passed on to the next country to allow for increased efficiencies as well as the localization of activities.