Preposition of lifesaving medicine and supplies, enhancing access to health services for the underserved communities affected by the earthquake in NWS (Envelopes 1  2). ltpgtThe project's ultimate goal is to maintain the provision of pre-existing primary and secondary healthcare services within the earthquake responses while ensuring access to services to vulnerable populations in northwest Syria by ensuring the availability of essential medicines and medical supplies. ltbrgtBased on the expressions of interest from the health partners and applied criteria, WHO planning to procure essential medical supplies for primary and secondary healthcare, dialysis items, and medical kits to cover the needs at least of 40 PHC and 50 SHC facilities with the supplies procured through this proposal. ltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtIt is estimated that this amount of supplies should be enough to cover the needs of healthcare delivery for 3 months and dialysis supplies for 900 ESRD patients for 6 months of support. In total WHO will provide 481,100 treatment courses to the people inside NWS.lt/spangtlt/pgtltpgtIn coordination with the Health Cluster, WHO proposed to include all locations, where the distribution is planned and locations of 2 WHO warehouses inside northwest Syria for the medical supplies prepositioning (Bab Alsalameh and Sarmada). ltbrgtlt/pgtltpgtThis proposal focuses on responding to the presented gaps in essential medicine and medical supplies in NWS by procuring, cross-border delivery, and prepositioning, with further preparation for the distribution of essential medicine and medical supplies aimed to ensure that the health sector can provide life-saving assistance to people in need in the NWS. The project will assist in the procurament and preposition of medical supplies and equipment for the continuum of delivery of primary and secondary healthcare services (a list of supplies is available in Annex 2 and the budget for this proposal). ltbrgtlt/pgtltpgtAll supplies WHO aims to procure are available through the global and local markets and the WHO Emergency Hub in Dubai. According to identified needs, WHO is planning to organize direct procurement of medical supplies from the Global Market, focusing on Essential Medicines for PHC and SHC kits, dialysis supplies from WHO Global Emergency Stock in Dubai, dialysis sessions and consumables and SAM kits to be distributed among health facilities in Idleb and Aleppo governates.ltbrgtlt/pgtltpgtIn addition, the shortfalls of essential medicines are key barriers to health access, therefore WHO will procure Reproductive health supplies and dignity kits and donate them to UNFPA to enable the agency to continue reaching those in need with lifesaving SRH services, including the provision of essential SRH supplies, some of which (including RH kit 3 designed for the clinical management of rape) UNFPA is the sole provider of it in NWS. Aiming to fill this gap ltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtWHO will contract UNFPA to procure Inter-Agency Reproductive Health kits (IARH kitslt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gt) and RH supplies, to covelt/spangtltspan style="font-size: 14px"gtr the needs of 163,125 direct beneficiaries for six months (112,625 females and 50,500 males), which would also support the entire healthcare system in northwest Syria.lt/spangtlt/pgtltpgtltbrgtltspan style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26)"gtWHO Gaziantep Field Presence acknowledges the risk of non-renewal of the UNSCR #2672 and aims to maintain the response to acute health emergencies in northwest Syria and ensure the following:lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltol style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26) background: transparent margin-top:0pt margin-bottom:0pt"gtltli style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26) background: transparent margin-top:0pt margin-bottom:0pt list-style-type:decimal"gtltspan data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26) background: transparent margin-top:0pt margin-bottom:0pt"gtEnsure continuity of health services and transfer service delivery activities part to INGOs in northwest Syria.lt/spangtlt/ligtltli style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26) background: transparent margin-top:0pt margin-bottom:0pt list-style-type:decimal"gtltspan data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26) background: transparent margin-top:0pt margin-bottom:0pt"gtThe continuing integration of vertical programs and WHO support to service delivery.lt/spangtlt/ligtltli style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26) background: transparent margin-top:0pt margin-bottom:0pt list-style-type:decimal"gtltspan data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26) background: transparent margin-top:0pt margin-bottom:0pt"gtA gradual transition from project-supported activities to more technical support is important for future sustainability.lt/spangtlt/ligtlt/olgtltpgt

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