USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program

On September 16, 2018, Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi inaugurated a new regional warehouse in Nampula in the country’s northern region. With double the capacity of the previous one, the new warehouse is the largest storage facility for medicines and other health commodities in the country and significantly increases the capacity of Mozambique’s Central Medical Store (CMAM) to effectively manage and distribute health commodities in the region. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supported the construction of the state-of-the-art regional warehouse. After months of careful...

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...

The African Society of Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) Conference is taking place December 8-13, 2018 in Abuja, Nigeria. GHSC-PSM will be there. Join us at one of these exciting sessions: Panel: Forging Partnerships with Manufacturers to Achieve the 3rd 90 Moderator/Presenters: Clement Ndongmo, Senior Technical Advisor, HIV/AIDS Laboratory Team, and Ezekiel Akintunde, Nigeria Laboratory and Malaria Logistics Director Time: Dec 8, 2:20PM – 4:10PM Location: Congress Hall Seminar: Laboratory Network Approach Presenter: Matthew Wattleworth, HIV/AIDS Laboratory Team Lead Times: December 11, 7:00AM – 8...