Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2007 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 5277
Country/Region: Guyana
Year: 2007
Main Partner: Partnership for Supply Chain Management
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Private Contractor
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $300,000

Funding for Biomedical Prevention: Blood Safety (HMBL): $300,000

The NBTS will begin to utilize the SCMS for reagents and core supplies for the NBTS. Stock outages and procurement delays are a recurring problem at NBTS. Due to lack of supplies, NBTS periodically cannot follow official testing algortihms and units must be wasted because specific confirmatory testing is not available. Stock outs also cause delays in routine testing and as a result blood requests are not filled while untested blood waits in the blood bank. SCMS already has an established relationship with the MOH which manages commodities for NBTS and we would anticipate that this transition can be efficiently accomplished. Improved commodities management will be crucial if NBTS is to scale up its activities to provide an adequate safe blood supply for Guyana.