HIV/AIDS Humanitarian Supply Chain Management: The Case of Zimbabwe
Supply Chain Management systems are not yet systematic and clearly defined. They are constantly being interrupted hence supply of antiretroviral is a major challenge to the nation. This also tends to enhance treatment failure and development of ARV resist
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HIV/AIDS Humanitarian Supply Chain Management: The Case of Zimbabwe Talent Tatenda Chingono and Charles Mbohwa
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Introduction
The Supply of Medicines and related commodities is the key to any successful health system, this insures the availability of essential commodities and equipment to enable testing, treatment, care and support. This supply chain is governed by the government and partner NGOs [3]. Most NGOs distribute the commodities to the countries’ district and provincial hospitals and clinics. Patients would then collect the drugs from these hospitals and clinics. NatPharm, a government owned parastatal, is a major enabler of this as it caters and deals primarily with the general public seeking attention at general/government facilities [15]. Literature has shown that relief humanitarian commodities are always in short supply. HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe and its associated or related circumstances such as food shortages require humanitarian intervention. In fact, 9 out of every 10 disasters that NGOs responds to are events that may have a major impact on areas of the world, yet do not get the media attention that other natural or ma-made disasters attract [1]. The crisis in Zimbabwe is a great example. This Southern African country has seen a 32 % increase in the number of individuals who do not have enough to eat, and 2.2 million Zimbabweans representing 25 % of the rural population needed help between January and March 2014 to avoid hunger/hidden hunger. This problem is a result of drought, which has led to a poor harvest and high food prices. The country is also in the region with the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence and fatality rate, this further complicates the situation.
T.T. Chingono (✉) ⋅ C. Mbohwa Department of Quality and Operations Management, University of Johannesburg, Bunting Road Conbas, Auckland Park, South Africa e-mail: [email protected] C. Mbohwa e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 S.-I. Ao et al. (eds.), Transactions on Engineering Technologies, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2717-8_33
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The major objective of this study was to determine both the specific nature of the humanitarian supply chain. Analyse and identify deficiencies and problems of a humanitarian logistics and supply chain management nature that exist in Zimbabwe.
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Existing Literature Relevant to the Study
Auxiliary information uncovered that scholars have mostly dwelled on coming up with strategies aimed at introducing philanthropic logistics and supply chain management to Aid organisations. These basically wanted to make their operations quicker and cheaper. These researchers include Clark and Culkin [2], Davidson [4], Näslund and Williamson [12], Thomas [17], Van Wassenhove [24], Kleindorfer and Van Wassenhove [8], Thomas and Van Wassenhove [20], Tomasini and Van Wassenhove [21], Thompson [18]. Others recommended supply chain Analytics for philanthropic logistics conversion [16] also likewise keeps tabs on the significant part about philanthropic logistics, N
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