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Background: Drug management is one of the primary health centre management activities that aims to ensure the continuity and affordability of pharmaceutical preparations. Aim: This study aims to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge of drug managers and drug management in several primary health centres of Malang regency. Method: The study was observational analytic using questionnaire instruments to analyse the level of knowledge of drug managers and three checklists to analyse drug management through three indicators of drug management: (1) conformity of stock to the national formulary, (2) conformity of stock to the disease patterns, and (3) the percentage of expired drugs. Result: There was no significant relationship between the level of knowledge and the first (p = 0.842), second (p = 0.236), and the third indicator (p = 0.361). Conclusion: Not all drug lists in the national formulary are required by each primary health centre. The inventory is adjusted to the consumption and epidemiology.

Objective: The use of oral contraceptive requires specific instructions. Pharmacist, as a part of healthcare provision, is able to counsel their clients about the proper use of oral contraceptive to be successful in family planning program. Pharmacist must be able to explain what acceptors should do if she misses pills and possible side effects because side effects are the most common reasons for women discontinuing combined oral contraceptive (COC). Therefore, counseling is an important part of family planning service. To provide more effective counseling, this study used “Sukses Ber-KB” computer application as a counseling tool. We aimed to determine the effect of this tool on improving the knowledge of oral contraceptive acceptors interviewed at pharmacies in Malang.Methods: Pharmacy selection was done by cluster random sampling based on the five districts of Malang, while acceptors were selected using a purposive sampling method, resulting in 106 COC acceptors. This study comprises pre-experimental research (one group pretest-posttest) with a cross-sectional study design, the analysis using Wilcoxon test.Results: The analysis of the results using a Wilcoxon test showed a significance value of 0 (p