The overall purpose of this assignment was to assess the situation with regular, sustainable and multi-variant (not only syringes) access to Disposable Medical Tools (DMT) in institutions primarily working with HIV-positive patients and partner institutions (infectious hospitals, emergency rooms, pediatric wards) in 4 countries of the Central Asia region – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan.
Actual services provided:
- Assess the MoH documents (Prikazi) about the availability of DMT in hospitals and the regulations regarding its use and utilization.
- Conduct in-depth interviews with the head doctors of the selected hospitals will be provided to realize how planning and needs formulation are done.
- Assess the most critical funding, allocation, and distribution issues for DMT procurement and supply.
- Assess on-site procedures and regulations for the use of equipment and its utilization.
- Facilitate discussion of survey draft reports in the sessions with all interested specialists in each country aiming to receive comments;
- Submit four final reports of each country to the Central Asian AIDS Control Project with the corresponding recommendations.