E-Monthly Stock Status Tracker (e-MoSST): A Tool to Enhance Universal Health Coverage for PLHIVs through Inventory Control Methods

Universal Health Coverage (UHC), is described as “people have[ing] access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship”[1] This is embedded in the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) goal 3, which aims to ensure healthy lives and well-being of all people, and one of the targets, specifically [3.8] considers enhancing access to essential medicines.[2], [3] Antiretroviral medicines (ARV), listed among the essential medicine list, provide effective management for the estimated 30.7 million people currently on the medication, as of December 2023.[4] It is therefore critical that there be unhindered, continuous, and uninterrupted access to the life-saving ARVs hinged on a robust, effective and efficient supply chain system, without which UHC cannot be actualized.[5], [6]