About MTaPS
MTaPS work enables low- and middle-income countries to strengthen their pharmaceutical systems and ensures systems are in place that allow the prescribers to prescribe the right medicines, the dispensers to dispense the correct products, and the patients know how to use the products safely and appropriately. This work is critical to saving lives because it ensures patients can access and safely and effectively use quality and affordable medical products.
Where We Work
MTaPS is a global project operating since 2019 in 18 countries across Africa and Asia, with fully staffed field offices in 13 countries. This means that safe, affordable, and reliable medical products get where they need to be. And patients understand how to use the products safely and appropriately.
How We Work
System strengthening is the foundation that allows procurements to enter a country successfully and reach the hospitals, clinics, and patients. Pharmaceutical systems intersect with everything done at the hospital level, clinic level, procurement level, and more.
Why PSS Matters
Medical products and related pharmaceutical services play a decisively large role in determining health outcomes. Access to safe and quality medicines at an affordable price and their responsible use by all populations can help countries prevent maternal and child deaths, create an AIDS-free generation, and protect their communities from infectious disease threats.
The MTaPS Experts
MTaPS staff are the technical experts in pharmaceutical systems strengthening. The project’s response to COVID-19 demonstrates how critical its work is for the full global health system and for saving lives. They apply their global expertise to each country’s health systems, so their unique challenges are addressed.
Highlights
Resilient Pharmaceutical Systems for Better Health
USAID MTaPS Nepal convened the partners, including USAID and government counterparts, in a closeout event on January 22, 2024, to celebrate the joint achievements in strengthening Nepal’s pharmaceutical system, instituting global best practices in the public and private sectors, and containing antimicrobial resistance. As an implementer of USAID’s mandate, the MTaPS Program is proud to have partnered with Nepal to implement life-saving initiatives toward building resilient pharmaceutical systems for better health outcomes.
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MTaPS Nepal Closeout Event
Celebrating UHC Day 2023: Supporting Countries to Strengthen Their Pharmaceutical Systems
As we celebrate UHC Day on December 12, it is important to stress that a pharmaceutical system's components are interconnected, and each component must function well to support the overall system. By taking a holistic approach that builds on existing structures, MTaPS supports countries in building resilient pharmaceutical systems that contribute toward achieving health for all.
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Resilient Pharmaceutical Systems for Better Health
After two and a half years of successful collaboration, MTaPS hosted a closeout event on December 6, 2023 to mark the end of our work in Indonesia. The event was well-attended by partners representing USAID, the Government of Indonesia, and other stakeholders. Along with several other partners, the USAID MTaPS Program has worked with MOH Indonesia to achieve resilient pharmaceutical systems for better health outcomes. Read more about the event and review the day with pictures.
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MTaPS Indonesia Closeout Event
Resilient Pharmaceutical Systems for Better Health
On November 28, 2023, MTaPS and partners representing USAID, the Government of Ethiopia, and other stakeholders commemorated the end of the Ethiopia USAID MTaPS program and celebrated the program's accomplishments in a successful, well-attended closeout event. MTaPS Ethiopia Program Country Director Hailu Tadeg reflects on the achievements and lessons from collaborating locally to build capacity for infection prevention and control and antimicrobial resistance containment.
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MTaPS Ethiopia Closeout Event
MTaPS Commemorates World AMR Week 2023
Every year the world comes together from November 18-24 to commemorate World AMR Awareness Week. This year’s theme is “Preventing AMR Together”, and the WHO calls for collaboration across sectors to preserve the efficacy of critical antimicrobial medicines. MTaPS supports Global Health Security Agenda target countries to advance USAID’s AMR action package-related objectives.
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