USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program

In Namibia, hospital pharmacies play an essential role in ensuring HIV-positive patients have continuous access to lifesaving antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. In addition to providing medicines to patients, many hospital pharmacies store ARVs for smaller neighboring clinics. However, some hospital pharmacies struggle to effectively manage and stock antiretrovirals and other essential medicines. As part of its support to 15 health facilities in high-burden HIV/AIDS regions, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project, identified the Onandjokwe...

As part of the project's commitment to sharing information and collaborating with the greater unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) community, GHSC-PSM has released a UAV procurement guide . This guide is based on our experience procuring UAVs to explore their use in public health supply chains to serve hard-to-reach health facilities. The project is focusing this UAV initiative in rural settings with limited distribution systems and infrastructure that create gaps in servicing patients. Many organizations are determining how UAVs could be applied to their work. For those organizations moving to the...

More than 15,000 policy makers, researchers, and advocates are attending this week’s 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam. The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project is there sharing research and promoting dialogue on important topics. GHSC-PSM will host a panel discussion on the transition to a new antiretroviral therapy and implications for supply chains at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam. “Critical Steps Along the Way: Preparing for the TLD Transition” will feature experts from GHSC-PSM and World Health...