USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program

An HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. With a continuous supply of antiretrovirals (ARVs), HIV-positive individuals can live long, healthy lives and reduce the amount of HIV in their body — which also reduces the risk of transmission to another person. Along with regular ARV use, regular testing of the “viral load” in a person’s body is required to make sure treatment is still effective. Yet, fewer than 50 percent of Africans on HIV treatment currently have access to viral load testing. On behalf of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the USAID Global Health...

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...