If the Republic of South Sudan, with donor help, can leverage existing SSGEWP logistical capabilities, a legacy of strengthened public health logistics would be a meaningful additional benefit to the end of GWD.
Another core recommendation is the creation of an integrated task force for each mission that combines political analysis, military operations, civilian police, electoral assistance, aid to refugees and displaced people, public information, logistics, finance and recruitment.
Shakespeare From Armenia in 1987 to Indonesia in 2004, to New Orleans in 2005, and now to Haiti in 2010, we have embarked on a sobering journey in public health logistics.
In countries with high public-sector market share, contraceptive prevalence estimates and trends from public-sector logistics data will be more reflective of the overall contraceptive prevalence than in countries where the public-sector market share is low.
For the methods studied, family planning use estimates from public-sector logistics data were correlated with those from the DHS, validating the quality and accuracy of current public-sector logistics data.
We obtained public-sector logistics data from the Procurement Planning and Monitoring Report (PPMR) and the Pipeline Monitoring and Procurement Planning System (PipeLine).
Three models showed strong correlation between public-sector logistics data for injectables, oral contraceptives, and condoms and their prevalence rates, demonstrating that current logistics data can provide useful prevalence estimates when timely survey data are unavailable.
Our results show a strong relationship between public-sector contraceptive logistics data and public-sector prevalence rates for short-acting methods, demonstrating the quality of current logistics data and their ability to provide relatively accurate prevalence estimates.
Our models demonstrate strong, significant relationships between public-sector contraceptive logistics data and referent public-sector prevalence rates for short-acting methods.
Richard Corbett is in charge of Oxfam's humanitarian support professionals (HSP) register, which includes employees with specialist skills in areas such as engineering, public health or logistics who can earn between £23,900 to £35,900.
