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longer-term health goals for Member Member States towards the achievement of
States in the SADC region. key indicators on TB, to ef ectively control
The Strategy will further help to build and ultimately eliminate tuberculosis in the
a sustainable, transformed and effective SADC region. It also highlights the chal-
health workforce within strengthened lenges that need to be overcome and key
health systems that supports Global Strat- recommendations to Member States for the
egy objectives. It will also provide vital improvement of their TB programme per-
support to SADC Member States by iden- formance.
tifying policy options, tools and guidance.
It is within this context that ILO, OECD Malaria Report 2019-2020
and WHO are called upon to provide tech- T e annual Malaria report is developed by
nical support, capacity building and de- the SADC Secretariat in partnership with
velop broader strategic objectives and the WHO and approved by the SADC Min-
policy options for the SADC region. isters of Health on an annual basis. T e re-
SADC Member States will then, based on port highlights progress on key milestones
their context, develop, review and priori- and indicators that Member States have
tise from the broader strategic objectives achieved towards the realization of ef ective
and policy options. malaria control and elimination

Pooled Procurement Guidelines Harmonisation of Regional Health Policies,
T e SADC Secretariat in partnership with the Strategies and Guidelines
United Nations Development Programme Harmonisation is aimed at addressing barri-
(UNDP) has provided technical support to ers to scaling up health services delivery. T e
the Medical Stores Department of Tanzania SADC secretariat has developed regional
to develop the SADC Pooled Procurement mechanisms through which collaborating
Services (SPPS) guidelines in line with the partners will agree to focus on providing sup-
SADC Pharmaceutical Business Plan. port to Member States in the region to enable
T e guidelines have been developed to as- them to achieve the sustainable development
84 sist key players in applying a systematic step- goals by adopting common approaches to
by-step approach in the SPPS supply chain quality delivery of health services and ensure
management, aimed at facilitating bulk pro- health protection for their citizens. T is con-
curement of medicines and other health com- sists essentially of support to Member States
modities and realizing the economies of scale. to identify, plan and address health systems
constraints to improve health-related out-
Tuberculosis Report 2019-2020 comes.
T e annual TB report is developed by the
SADC Secretariat in partnership with Multi-sectoral Approach and Partnerships
AUDA-NEPAD and the Global Fund and Modalities of collaboration that involve
approved by the SADC Ministers of Health joint analytical work as well as planning and
before its of cial publication. T e 2019 re- implementation support which partners
port summarises the progress made by would normally undertake in collaboration