How AIDS funding strengthens health systems: progress in pharmaceutical management.

摘要: In recent years, new global initiatives responding to the AIDS crisis have dramatically affected-and often significantly improved-how developing countries procure, distribute, and manage pharmaceuticals. A number of developments related treatment scale-up, initially focused on AIDS-related products, created frameworks for widening access medicines other diseases that disproportionally impact with limited resources strengthening health systems overall. Examples such come in areas drug development pricing; policy regulation; pharmaceutical procurement, distribution, use; management systems, as information human resources. For example, a hospital South Africa developed tools decentralize provision antiretroviral therapy local clinics-bringing closer patients shifting responsibility from scarce pharmacists lower level pharmacy staff. Successful, system was expanded chronic conditions, mental illness. Progress toward universal HIV prevention, treatment, care, support will continue push strengthen sectors serve not only HIV-related needs but all needs; experts can likely take these achievements further maximize their expansion into wider system.