Scoping review protocol of central chronic medicines dispensing and distribution programme for widening access to medications in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Central Chronic Medicines Dispensing and Distribution (CCMDD) programme, a differentiated alternative service delivery programme, initiated by the Department of Health, South Africa, allows clinically stable patients to receive chronic medication refills at the clinic-based or community-based pick-up points, offering stable patients suffering from non-communicable diseases an easy way to collect their medication. This facilitates the achievement of positive therapeutic outcomes and underscores the importance of this programme, which has resulted in decreased stigma concerns and optimising the workload for public health facilities and health workers. Therefore, this scoping review aims to explore and describe how the improved CCMDD programme has widened access to me

SUBMITTER: Ogbodu OM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11877235 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature