Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Practices and Its Associated Factors in Public Health Facilities, West Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia: Cross-Sectional Study.

Effective pharmaceutical supply chain practices help to minimize stockout, losses due to expiry, and pilferage. Besides, it helps to ensure the availability of the pharmaceutical in an adequate quantity and improving the quality of services provided. This study aimed to assess the status of the pharmaceutical supply chain practices and associated factors from the healthcare professional's perspective in public health facilities.

Logistics Management Information System Performance of Program Medicines in Public Health Facilities of East Gojjam Zone, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Logistics management information system enables the users to gain the right data, in the right quantity, in the right quality, at the right time, to the right place, and for the right cost. Without a logistics management information system, programs inevitably waste valuable resources.

Methods: A facility-based descriptive cross-sectional study supplemented with a qualitative method was conducted in selected public health facilities of East Gojjam zone from March 21 to April 23, 2018.

Anti-Tuberculosis Commodities Management Performance and Factors Affecting It at Public Health Facilities in Dire Dawa City Administration, Ethiopia.

Background: Health facilities (HFs) need extensive ranges of anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs and related TB laboratory commodities (LCs) for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of TB and multi-drug-resistance (MDR)-TB. This study was aimed to assess anti-TB commodities management performance at public HFs of Dire Dawa city administration, Ethiopia.

Methods: A cross-sectional study design in 16 HFs providing TB and MDR-TB related service using quantitative and qualitative method was conducted.