1. UNICEF Medicine Supply Systems Strengthening
Henrik K.Nielsen
Essential Medicines and Nutrition Unit
HIV/AIDS & Health Centre
WHO Technical Briefing Seminar
Geneva

2. Outline ACCESS ACCESS 3. Sustainable financing 1. Rational selection
4. Reliable
health and
supply
systems
2. Affordable
prices
3. Sustainable
financing
ACCESS
1. Rational selection
4. Reliable
health and supply systems
2. Affordable prices
3. Sustainable financing
ACCESS

3. Where we supply? UNICEF country programs Procurement Service Customers
UN Agencies
NGO’s
MOH

4. Top 15 EM products 2009 (26.701,942 USD)

5. Top 15 HIV/AIDS products 2009 (80.373,064 USD)

6. Top 15 Malaria products 2009 (24.150,421 USD)

7. Quality Assurance UNICEF´s Quality system is based on: Suppliers
Procedures
WHO Model QA system for Procurement
ISO 9000:2001
Suppliers
Review of submitted documentation
GMP inspection/compliance WHO GMP guidelines
Products
Interagency Product Questionnaire

8. Quality Assurance Evaluation of products:
Done in connection with Invitation to Bid
Supply Agreement with best offer
1-2 back-up suppliers
Pre-qualification of suppliers of Vaccines, HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB products:
Products must be pre-qualified by WHO
and listed on the WHO website

9. Quality Assurance Products received in the warehouse are inspected
Visual inspection
Documentation, Certificate of Analysis
Analysis performed on a random basis according to an annual plan
- Predelivery Inspections

10. Quality Assurance Local Procurement/Production
All local purchase of pharmceuticals requires apporval from UNICEF SD
Local production has been evaluated in countries like:
Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Peru

11. Thank You