Stop Stockouts

A project monitoring access to essential medicines in public healthcare facilities across South Africa.

[Stop Stockouts @Stop_Stock_Outs]

Community-led responses that engender accountability are essential for a healthcare system to thrive. Please join us for this important launch this morning.

[Ritshidze @RitshidzeSA]

Stockouts of medicines & unfriendly services are among ten key issues outlined in the third edition of the #NorthWestHealth report — join us live on vimeo, Facebook, or YouTube from 10am @TAC @Stop_Stock_Outs
Read more: https://t.co/2JOj0jrUuf

[Ritshidze @RitshidzeSA]

They have a tendency to leave & come back rushing and scolding us and we just apologise. I then decided to stop going to the clinic. Somedays you get your tablets, others you don't. Other times, you get home to realise your treatment is incomplete #EasternCape

[TAC @TAC]

Exactly 8 years ago, Mama Graca Machel showed amazing support to TAC during our call to #SaveTAC in the Soweto Marathon and met with TAC runners.

@G_MachelTrust #SaveTAC #sowetomarathon #werunSoweto #DonateToTAC #Join_TAC_Today

[Ritshidze @RitshidzeSA]

We are starting our programme now.... join online! #EasternCapeHealth https://t.co/sbf44X9kjB

[Stop Stockouts @Stop_Stock_Outs]

Please tune into the Ritshidze Eastern Cape State of Health Report launch tomorrow from 10h00.

[Ritshidze @RitshidzeSA]

Tomorrow we're back in the Eastern Cape to launch the 2nd edition of our State of Health report! This year’s report reveals many improvements in service quality since last year—but progress in getting 95% of people on treatment remains off track. Join us live #EasternCapeHealth

[GroundUp @GroundUp_News]

Accessing female contraceptives, especially the injection, isn't as easy as it should be

Read: https://t.co/YIqhXhz5Kj | @HealthZA @Stop_Stock_Outs @SECTION27news

[Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa @MSF_southafrica]

"With endemic violence against women in #SouthAfrica, failure to meet our reproductive health needs is another stressor as women w/o access to contraception are forced into a position of negotiating condom use or risk an unplanned pregnancy." - Dr Indira Govender @doctors_rural

[The Daily Vox @thedailyvox]

[NEW] A new report from the @Stop_Stock_Outs has found that contraceptives form that biggest share of medicine stockouts meaning it is the most unavailable at public health facilities.
https://t.co/Bbvr7TSGKm

[Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa @MSF_southafrica]

“Women who take contraception have made a choice not to get pregnant. When supplies are not there, we take away their agency,”- Lucy O’Connell, nurse and advisor at the MSF Southern Africa Medical Unit. We cannot continue to celebrate #womensmonth like this!

[Stop Stockouts @Stop_Stock_Outs]

This is a great thread summarizing an important report we are launching today. It focuses on access to Contraceptives in South African Public Health Clinics between April and June 2022. @MSF_southafrica @TAC @SECTION27news @RHAPnews @doctors_rural

[Mia Malan @miamalan]

JUST IN:🧵1. What is the most common out-of-stock drug at SA government clinics?

Contraceptives.

40% of all medicine stockouts reported between April + June 2022 = contraceptives.

Which contraceptives? Injections (76.3%) and pills (19.4%).

Source: https://t.co/JEEWiYjDKk

[Spotlight @SpotlightNSP]

Opinion: The devastating cost of the North West strikes, by @Ufrieda https://t.co/SOeGD5khbd @tac @RHAPnews @NorthWestDOH @nehawuNW @SECTION27news

[Stop Stockouts @Stop_Stock_Outs]

ICYMI. Watch #SpecialAssignment’s investigation into Drug Resistant HIV and the implications of medicine stockouts. https://t.co/1MrHJgkcFO

@TAC @SAHIVSoc @MSF_southafrica @RHAPnews @EUinSA

[Stop Stockouts @Stop_Stock_Outs]

#SpecialAssignment starting soon.Tune in to see what Prof Francois Venter, @WitsRHI, Andrew Mosane, @TAC, Kopano Klaas, #StopStockOuts have to say about ongoing drug shortages. SABC 3 at 21:30 tonight, Sunday,13 January.

https://t.co/bh49voUT1n

[Stop Stockouts @Stop_Stock_Outs]

Are ongoing medicine stockouts threatening to reverse progress made with South Africa’s HIV/AIDS treatment programme? #SpecialAssignment investigates. This Sunday, @SABC3 at 21:30 . Here's a taste. https://t.co/EPAo7Qn7iP …
@TAC @SAHIVSoc @RHAPnews @MSF_SApress @EUinSA

[Stop Stockouts @Stop_Stock_Outs]

Can South Africa avoid the serious risks posed by drug shortages? Don't miss Drug Resistant HIV on #SpecialAssignment, Sunday, 13 January, at 21:30, simulcast on @SABC3 and @SABC News Channel 404. @MSF_SApress @RHAPnews @SAHIVSoc @TAC @EU in South Africa

[RHAP @RHAPnews]

UHC or NHI will remain a “pipe dream” if human resources for health, especially in rural areas, aren’t urgently addressed. https://t.co/GH7jRBboRO

#ruralcommunitiesmatter #ruralhealth

@russ421 @KaressaGov @HealtheNews @AmyZinGreen @PHMSA1 @SECTION27news @TAC @PublicHealthSA

[SAHTACtweets @SAHTACtweets]

Regulatory processes differ from country to country within Africa, often resulting in delays of health products reaching those in need. New report shows how efforts to harmonize regulatory approvals for health products could save more lives, faster. https://t.co/ysabhducvy

[Stop Stockouts @Stop_Stock_Outs]

Dr Amir Shroufi, medical coordinator for @MSF spoke to @StephenGrootes on @SAfmRadio about 'World Aids Day – How far has South Africa come in fighting HIV/Aids?" Listen here if you missed it. https://t.co/g7ZqhrXTMP
#StopStockOuts @MSF_SApress @EUinSA

[Stop Stockouts @Stop_Stock_Outs]

ICYMI.
https://t.co/mTkJGkc046 #StopStockOuts