Compass - Charting the Way Ahead
In late 2019, the world first heard about COVID-19. Since then, the virus has swept the globe. In a bid to understand the end-to-end supply chain impacts of the pandemic for reproductive health products in low- and middle-income countries, an in-depth assessment was commissioned: Building resilient sexual and reproductive health supply chains during COVID-19 and beyond: a community roadmap for action and technical findings. The Roadmap contains a series of broad, far-reaching recommendations in the areas of RH product markets, financing, supply chain strategies, policies, stewardship, and data.
Now, we offer you an initiative to help put the Roadmap into action. Compass — Charting the Way Ahead builds on the Roadmap’s analysis and findings, helping to point the way as our community navigates through these unprecedented times, and prepares for a post-pandemic reality.
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), disruptions in health supply chains, limited regional pharmaceutical production, and excessive reliance on foreign imports combine to impede availability of essential maternal health (MH) products. A new report assesses the demand for—and manufacturing capacity of—five essential MH commodities across eight SSA countries. Produced by US Pharmacopeia (USP) and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC), the report highlights a lack of diversified regional suppliers, overreliance on foreign imports, and varying capacity and distribution of regional manufacturers as challenges that affect availability, access, and affordability of essential MH medicines.
- Report: Manufacturing Landscape Assessment for Maternal Health Supplies in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Report Summary Factsheet: Manufacturing Landscape Assessment for Maternal Health Supplies in Sub-Saharan Africa - Factsheet
- Report: Exploring the potential for joint supply planning in West Africa
- Blog: Producing maternal health supplies in sub-Saharan Africa
- Webinar: Manufacturing landscape assessment for maternal health supplies in sub-Saharan Africa
- Initiative Factsheet
- Report: Contraceptive Commodity Funding during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of funding trends and potential pandemic impacts in low- and middle-income countries
- Interactive Data Annex Tool: https://compass-finance.rhsupplies.org/
- Presentation: Summary Presentation of the findings
- Blog: How resilient is our funding?
- Webinar: Contraceptive Commodity Funding During the COVID-19 pandemic
- Initiative Factsheet
Updates
- 9 June 2023: Report Studies Adaptation Strategies Developed To Mitigate Pandemic’s Impact On RH Supply Chain
- 30 March 2023: How resilient is our funding?
- 23 February 2023: New Report Asks What Effect COVID-19 Had On RH Supply Funding
- 6 October 2022: New efforts gather speed under Compass initiative
- 3 December 2021: Sharing the Compass: Charting the way through COVID-19 and reproductive health supplies