USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program

Imagine going to the grocery store without knowing how many people you may have to feed and what kinds of food you should buy. And imagine you could only go once a year. Wandering the aisles without a clear list, would you buy too little? Perhaps too much? There’s a good chance your family or guests could end up going hungry at some point in the year or that excess food could rot, wasting funds you could have invested elsewhere. Now imagine this same situation but on a much larger scale, for the complex process of buying the thousands of different medicines and health supplies needed for an...

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...