Field Officers (Medicine Access Project) 18 Jobs in Kenya – Innovations for Poverty Action

Field Officers (Medicine Access Project) 18 Jobs in Kenya – Innovations for Poverty Action

Medicine Access Project that aims to evaluate the impact of a new non-communicable disease medicine access program on the availability and price of the new medicine included in the program portfolio at health facilities and households in 8 counties targeted by the program in Kenya using a cluster-randomized trial design.

Access to medicine in Kenya is via public, non-for-profit. In the private sector patients pay the price of the medicines out-of-pocket; in the public and not-for-profit sector—Ministry of Health facilities or facilities affiliated with faith-based organizations—patients may be charged either the full price or a partial cost-recovery fee.

Out-of-pocket spending can result in catastrophic health expenditure and increased poverty.

A household survey conducted in 2008 indicates that 82% of patients pay out of pocket for their Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) medicines.

About 33% of respondents who reported being diagnosed and prescribed an NCD medicine had that medicine available in their house at the time of the survey.

We seek to evaluate the impact of the new medicine access program on the availability and pricing of the new medicine in the program at the facilities and households in target counties.

Data for the evaluation will be collected at two levels: health facilities and households. We are preparing for midline data collection, the third of five phases of data collection, after the program implementation.

Duties and Responsibilities: