Comments on: Accountability, AIDS and Africa – Stop the Stockouts, Financial Oversight (BEMF) http://globalhealthideas.org/2009/09/accountability-aids-and-africa-stop-the-stockouts-financial-oversight-bemf/ Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:11:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: farzaneh http://globalhealthideas.org/2009/09/accountability-aids-and-africa-stop-the-stockouts-financial-oversight-bemf/comment-page-1/#comment-1144 farzaneh Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:06:35 +0000 http://globalhealthideas.org/?p=1675#comment-1144 Just found AIDS Accountability International http://aidsaccountability.org/ AIDS Accountability International released its unique rating of the quality of country reporting to the UN on the response to AIDS on World AIDS Day 2008. The new scorecard evaluates data that all UN Member States agreed to provide as part of their unanimous adoption of the United Nations 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. The analysis reveals a widespread lack of transparency and failure to report, by both rich and poor countries, that is seriously hindering the global AIDS response. On 23rd April 2009, they held a roundtable discussion in Stockholm about the Scorecard. www.aidsaccountability.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/stockholm_roundtable_summary.pdf Just found AIDS Accountability International http://aidsaccountability.org/

AIDS Accountability International released its unique rating of the quality of country reporting to the UN on the response to AIDS on World AIDS Day 2008. The new scorecard evaluates data that all UN Member States agreed to provide as part of their unanimous adoption of the United Nations 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. The analysis reveals a widespread lack of transparency and failure to report, by both rich and poor countries, that is seriously hindering the global AIDS response.

On 23rd April 2009, they held a roundtable discussion in Stockholm about the Scorecard. http://www.aidsaccountability.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/stockholm_roundtable_summary.pdf

]]> By: Isaac Holeman http://globalhealthideas.org/2009/09/accountability-aids-and-africa-stop-the-stockouts-financial-oversight-bemf/comment-page-1/#comment-1130 Isaac Holeman Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:12:39 +0000 http://globalhealthideas.org/?p=1675#comment-1130 Thanks for the interesting write up Farzaneh. As I mentioned at ghdonline, I work with an organization called FrontlineSMS:Medic is adapting the FrontlineSMS platform for use in medical settings, including supply chain management with several organizations in Malawi and Bangladesh. FrontlineSMS is the tool the Stop The Stockouts campaign used to receive the stock out reports via SMS. FrontlineSMS is integrated with the Ushahidi mapping engine (the mapping software used for stop the stockouts, read more at http://is.gd/3Eyfr). Both of these tools are open source and free for the public to use. We're working with Ushahidi to do mapping in a more organizational context (e.g. where are my org's community health workers sending messages from? What villages have they been finding and referring cases of diarrhea from?). If you've interested, please contact me at isaac [at] medic.frontlinesms.com. I'd be happy to help. Thanks for the interesting write up Farzaneh. As I mentioned at ghdonline, I work with an organization called FrontlineSMS:Medic is adapting the FrontlineSMS platform for use in medical settings, including supply chain management with several organizations in Malawi and Bangladesh.

FrontlineSMS is the tool the Stop The Stockouts campaign used to receive the stock out reports via SMS. FrontlineSMS is integrated with the Ushahidi mapping engine (the mapping software used for stop the stockouts, read more at http://is.gd/3Eyfr). Both of these tools are open source and free for the public to use. We’re working with Ushahidi to do mapping in a more organizational context (e.g. where are my org’s community health workers sending messages from? What villages have they been finding and referring cases of diarrhea from?).

If you’ve interested, please contact me at isaac [at] medic.frontlinesms.com. I’d be happy to help.

]]> By: farzaneh http://globalhealthideas.org/2009/09/accountability-aids-and-africa-stop-the-stockouts-financial-oversight-bemf/comment-page-1/#comment-1129 farzaneh Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:40:26 +0000 http://globalhealthideas.org/?p=1675#comment-1129 Check out a great discussion of this post at <a href="www.ghdonline.org" rel="nofollow">Global Health Delivery online</a>: They talk about the USAID I DELIVER project, subtleties of supply chain functioning as well as the first mobile-phone inventory control for global health, and a developer gets into detail on how Stop the Stockouts Frontline SMS works with the Ushahidi mapping engine (both open-source!!). Very cool. http://www.ghdonline.org/tech/discussion/blog-post-on-stop-the-stockouts-for-health-it/ Check out a great discussion of this post at Global Health Delivery online:

They talk about the USAID I DELIVER project, subtleties of supply chain functioning as well as the first mobile-phone inventory control for global health, and a developer gets into detail on how Stop the Stockouts Frontline SMS works with the Ushahidi mapping engine (both open-source!!). Very cool.

http://www.ghdonline.org/tech/discussion/blog-post-on-stop-the-stockouts-for-health-it/

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