South Africa

Given the grave situation in South Africa with HIV/AIDS, the South African Department of Health and USAID are working together, through the TASC/South Africa project, to improve the national condom distribution program. The project will review and refine condom procurement, distribution, and quality assurance.

The goal of the project is to design and implement a system to ensure an uninterrupted supply of condoms to all health facilities in the country, as well as to NGOs, CBOs, and other relevant organizations. The project will build the Department of Health’s capacity to design, maintain, and utilize an effective logistics system at both the national and provincial levels.

This massive project covers roughly 150 million condoms per year and will work in the following areas:

• Systems development of the condom logistics management system, including forecasting, procurement, shipment, warehousing, and distribution.
• Quality assurance by developing protocols for ensuring consistent quality in condom procurement and instituting quality testing systems for procured condoms.
• Training in logistic management systems, including the development of curricula and manuals, and the coordination of cascade training to provincial and district levels.
• Monitoring the logistics management information system (LMIS) that regularly tracks distribution, stocks, and predicts future needs.