Supply Chain Management Courses­ for Public Health

The ABC classification (also called the 80/20 rule or the Pareto analysis) is a method of classifying inventory according to their relative importance. The items are classified as either A, B or C as follows: A -Very important; B -Moderately important; C -Least important. This approach enables the organisation to concentrate on high value or otherwise important items, while not neglecting the other categories.

Artemisinin Based Combination Therapy (Combinaison thérapeutique à base d’Artémisinine)

AMU is the abbreviation for Average Monthly Consumption, a measure of how much a product, in this case a medicine, has been used on average per month. It is calculated by dividing the total annual consumption of a medicine by the number of months in stock.

$AMU = \frac{total\ annual\ consumption}{N^{o}\ of\ months\ in\ stock}$

Antirétroviraux

Aire de Santé

Assistant Technique

ATM is the acronym for access to medicine.

An Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) is the key substance of a medicine which provides pharmacological activity or therapeutic effect in the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of a disease.

Aircon storage refers to facilities or containers where medicines or health products are stored below a certain temperature with the help of airconditioning. The temperature range is normally under 23 °C. Aircon storage contrasts with cold storage where temperature stays between 2-8 °C or with ambient storage where products are stored at room temperature.

Allopathic medicine refers to the mainstream system of medical practice in Western countries. Also called Western medicine, bio-medicine, evidence-based medicine or modern medicine.