Mimi Whitehouse, MBA, Logistics Services, JSI Research and Training, 1616 North Fort Myer Dr, Arlington, VA 22209, 703-528-7474, Mimi_Whitehouse@jsi.com

Throughout the world, reproductive health programs are facing a growing crisis as a result of a lack of supplies, which are essential for HIV/AIDS prevention, family planning, and other vital sexual and reproductive health care services. The Supply Initiative (SI) has been set up to call attention to this crisis as well as to increase the availability and efficient use of human, institutional and financial resources for reproductive health supplies.

One product of the SI, the RHInterchange, a web-based tool, seeks to address the need for better coordination by capturing reproductive health supply information, currently from IPPF, UNFPA, and USAID, with future expansion to include other public sector providers, multi- and bi-lateral agencies, non-governmental organizations and governments. The RHInterchange will facilitate improved donor coordination and management of commodity programs. The data includes previous and current contraceptive procurements and related forecasted needs, by country, for major donors.

Learning Objectives:

• Through interactive querying, participants attending this session will become familiar with the RHInterchange, a tool designed to address the growing reproductive health supply shortage. Participants will learn how to access RHI via the Internet, what information is contained in RHI and how to create their own user-defined reports, so they can then employ this information for their academic research, and/or in-country RH/HIV/AIDS program planning.

Keywords: Internet Tools,

Related Web page: www.rhsupplies.org

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.