USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program

In Zambia, the public health supply chain operating model has been changing rapidly, due in large part to an expansion of the country’s Essential Medicines Logistics Improvement Program (EMLIP) to support a new, universal test-and-treat initiative to reach UNAIDS’ 90-90-90 goals. Since implementation of EMLIP 2009, orders processed through Medical Stories Limited (MSL), Zambia’s central medical store, have increased from 300 to more than 2,000 orders being processed per month. In addition, MSL has taken ownership of last-mile delivery to more than 2,500 health facilities, and the number of...

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...