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How a medicine supply chain is organised
The handoffs from making a dose to storing, moving and dispensing it, without invented volumes.
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Supply Chain
How a medicine moves from production to the point of care, and where packaging does and does not explain a shortage.
Start here
Read the supply chain as a sequence of roles, then read the packaging page before treating a carton as the cause of a shortage.
Medicine supply chain explained names the handoffs from making a dose to holding, moving and dispensing it. Packaging and medicine availability keeps packaging failures separate from the price, quality and regulatory barriers WHO describes.