USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program

Guinea’s Ministry of Health (MoH) puts information at the heart of decision-making. The country’s existing Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) provides users data to ensure that health facilities and patients have access to the health products they need. To help revitalize the system, USAID helped create a Logistics Management Unit (LMU) within the National Directorate of Pharmacy and Medicine (DNPM) and developed a new operation manual to coordinate the supply of health commodities.

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...