Blog Examines PEPFAR-Funded Program to Improve Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment in Ethiopia

Writing in USAID's "IMPACTblog," Dereje Bisrat, monitoring and evaluation adviser for the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS), discusses the PEPFAR-funded program, which is administered by USAID and "works with Ethiopia's Pharmaceutical Fund and Supply Agency (PFSA), nine regional health bureaus, and more than 1,717 health facilities to improve access to HIV/AIDS treatment" in the country. She tells the story of Neima Mohammed, an Ethiopian refugee who, after living in Djibouti for 10 years returned to her home country to seek treatment through the program, writing, "This story might have ended with Neima's fateful decline in health. Fortunately, thanks to friends back home, Neima learned Ethiopia was embarking on efforts to provide free antiretroviral treatment to thousands of people living with the disease" (11/6).