The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program (GHSC) is a collection of 8 complementary projects working globally to achieve stronger, more resilient health supply chains.
By incorporating lessons learned over the last decade of global health supply chain management, GHSC consolidates USAID’s primary supply purchasing and distribution power across the health sector, with increased efficiencies and cost savings to create one streamlined and integrated supply chain.
Program focus areas like procurement, last mile delivery, in-country technical assistance, capacity building, quality assurance, and service delivery, among others, work to ensure an uninterrupted stream of quality health products and services for millions of people.
Djélika Doumbia remembers how frightening it was to rush her newborn son, Karim, to the hospital shortly after bringing him home. He had fallen very ill due to an umbilical cord infection. While waiting anxiously at the hospital, a health worker explained that using shea butter on the cord stump could have caused the infection. Global health experts recommend using chlorhexidine gel as a simply...
Djélika Doumbia remembers how frightening it was to rush her newborn son, Karim, to the hospital shortly after bringing him home. He had fallen very ill due to an umbilical cord infection. While waiting anxiously at the hospital, a health worker explained that using shea butter on the cord stump could have caused the infection. Global health experts recommend using chlorhexidine gel as a simply...
