The UNICEF Regional Office for West and Central Africa, in partnership with WHO (TCM , AMDS and the AFRO Office) and GIP ESTHER undertook an assessment of Procurement and Supply Management Systems (PSM) for Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, medicines for opportunistic infections (OI) and diagnostic tests.

The evaluation was sequenced in three phases: (i) review of documentation available on the issue in the 24 West and Central African countries covered by UNICEF (ii) field surveys in 8 sample countries and (iii) presentation and discussion of results and development of recommendations during a regional restitution workshop held in Dakar in April 2008.