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Building Excellence in Supply Chain Management through Health Worker Incentives in Vihiga County
GovernanceQuality AssuranceWorkforce DevelopmentHIV/AIDSMalariaMaternal and Child HealthReproductive HealthKenya
September 22, 2020Supply chain systems thrive on quality assurance across the pipeline to optimize service delivery. In Kenya, USAID’s Afya Ugavi Activity provides technical and logistical support in strengthening health commodity supply chain systems…

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Building Excellence in Supply Chain Management through Health Worker Incentives in Vihiga County
GovernanceQuality AssuranceWorkforce DevelopmentHIV/AIDSMalariaMaternal and Child HealthReproductive HealthKenya
September 22, 2020Supply chain systems thrive on quality assurance across the pipeline to optimize service delivery. In Kenya, USAID’s Afya Ugavi Activity provides technical and logistical support in strengthening health commodity supply chain systems for HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and FP/RMNCAH programs at national and…
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Ensuring a Reliable Supply of ARVs during COVID-19
LogisticsHIV/AIDSNamibia
September 18, 2020Namibia’s Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) began implementing social distancing and quarantine requirements on March 27, 2020 to combat the COVID-19 epidemic. To ensure availability of antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) for people living with HIV/AIDS during the quarantine, the USAID…
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A "SMAT" Way to Track Journey to Self-Reliance in Strengthening Supply Chain Management
GovernanceSupply PlanningWorkforce DevelopmentKenya
September 16, 2020The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is reorienting its strategies, partnership models, and program practices to achieve greater development outcomes and work toward a time when foreign assistance is no longer necessary. It’s called the Journey to Self-Reliance. This means…
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World Sepsis Day 2020: Supplies Fight Infections to Save Vulnerable Patients
Maternal and Child Health
September 14, 2020September 13 marked World Sepsis Day, an opportunity for the global maternal and child health community to raise awareness for this condition brought on by severe infection. Mothers, newborns, children and others with weakened immune systems are particularly vulnerable to sepsis…
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Remote Supportive Supervision for Supply Chain Professionals in Mozambique during COVID-19
Workforce DevelopmentCOVID-19HIV/AIDSMaternal and Child HealthMozambique
September 10, 2020Supportive supervision is a process of helping staff to continuously improve their own work performance. It is carried out in a respectful and non-authoritarian way with a focus on using supervisory visits to improve knowledge and skills of health staff. Beginning in provinces with reported COVID-…
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Angola Holds Virtual Quantification Exercise Amid COVID-19
Supply PlanningCOVID-19HIV/AIDSAngola
August 24, 2020From February to June 2020, Angola performed for the first time a remote, on-line quantification exercise to support the transition to TLD, the preferred first-line HIV/AIDS treatment. Angola’s Ministry of Health (MOH) made the decision to begin the transition to TLD with ministerial approval in…

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