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Improving Access to Essential Medicines Through Public-Private Partnerships

This paper documents the poor availability of various EHPs in Africa and explores how to improve EHP distribution via collaborations with the private sector. Specifically, the paper aims to address the following objectives:

• Assess empirically if EHPs are less available than CPGs in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Identify opportunities for health systems to improve EHP distribution based on lessons learned from CPG distribution practices.

• Illustrate how public-private partnerships can leverage the strengths of CPG companies to improve EHP availability by sharing knowledge or sharing infrastructure.