Embrace digital procurement to boost access to medicines in Africa

Children suffering from malnutrition being treated at Port Sudan Paediatric Centre in Sudan on September 7, 2024.

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For decades, global health procurement has mostly relied on centralised multilateral institutions pooling donor funding to purchase and distribute medicines across low and middle-income countries.

While this model of procurement has delivered many successes, it has simultaneously perpetuated inefficiencies, including misaligned priorities, inflexible procurement processes, and an unsustainable reliance on external funding.

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