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Health initiatives working for good in Africa

IT IS vitally important for the private sector improve their healthcare supply chains. By working
to work in partnership with Governments and alongside health ministries, donor organisations
international donor funds to ensure that every and the pharmaceutical industry, Imperial ensures
patient in Africa has access to the medication and the delivery of medicines to the people who
healthcare facilities they require. This is the view need them, when they need them. “Ensuring a
expressed by Dr Iain Barton, Imperial’s Group secure and sustainable supply of medications
business development executive for Healthcare and diagnostic tests is literally a matter of life and
at the recent AIDS conference in Durban. Imperial death,” Barton asserts •
accordingly welcomed the recent news that
US$410-million has been donated through the
US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
(PEPFAR), to help end the AIDS epidemic in
South Africa. PEPFAR also supports projects in SA
to reduce new HIV infections in girls and young
women. Imperial delivers life-saving medicine to
HIV/AIDS programmes in 30 countries – including
Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi, Zambia and South
Africa – and is focused on helping African countries

ID Logistics expands its solutions

ID Logistics SA, part of the global French contract from a farm and deliver anywhere in the country
logistics company, is making headway in the between 24 to 72 hours through our network.
chilled distribution market since it established its Quality of service including end-to-end cold chain
comprehensive and national network infrastructure and challenging lead-time was met from first
to optimise Danone’s Southern African supply shipments. Deneys, which is stringent regarding
chain in 2012. Benefiting from a comprehensive the integrity of its products, was very satisfied
network in SA, ID Logistics recently launched a and within a month, awarded ID Logistics with
new service aimed at offering industrial firms and the secondary distribution to the final stores in
farmers the opportunity to ship a few number additional regions and intends to use more of our
of pallets (less than a truck load) from point A footprint to develop its sales.” ID Logistics has
to point B throughout the country. Says Etienne a fully operational national footprint including
Juillard, ID Logistics’ managing director, “With regional distribution centres and an extensive
Deneys Swiss Dairies, we’ve proven our ability, secondary distribution network, together with
a phone call away, to collect small loads directly managing Danone’s Boksburg factory warehouse. •

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