Stop Stockouts Projects

Stockouts and shortages of ARVs, TB medicines, contraceptives and other medicines and health products cause disruption, confusion, cost, and can detrimentally affect long term treatment adherence. Yet stockouts continue to be a major challenge across the country.

The Stop Stockouts Project (SSP) was developed to quickly address issues of stockouts. The SSP is a consortium of five civil society organisations that monitors medicines’ availability in healthcare facilities in South Africa. The SSP engages in ongoing monitoring of stockouts in healthcare facilities. Healthcare workers and public healthcare users are able to report stockouts to the SSP through SMS, phone calls, or a number of other means.