Shifting paradigms: Can NTD innovation fit within existing pooled procurement mechanisms?
On Wednesday, June 14 2023 Uniting Efforts for Innovation, Access and Delivery and the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE) co-hosted a roundtable discussion on pooled procurement mechanisms for NTDs.
Advancing research, development, and access of new medicines and other health technologies for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) is limited by fragmented demand and complicated procurement & supply logistics, among other reasons. One solution to overcome this challenge is to harmonize supply chains and shape market dynamics across vendors and buyers through pooled procurement pathways. Uniting Efforts presented an Issue Brief with research that has been commissioned on this topic.