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Improving Availability and Rational Use of Health Products in Guinea
GovernanceLogisticsQuality AssuranceSupply PlanningWarehousing and DistributionWorkforce DevelopmentMalariaMaternal and Child HealthReproductive HealthGuinea
September 23, 2021In Guinea, there is a relatively strong Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) in place, and the USAID Global Health Supply Chain-Procurement Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project has developed an interoperability between the…

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Improving Availability and Rational Use of Health Products in Guinea
GovernanceLogisticsQuality AssuranceSupply PlanningWarehousing and DistributionWorkforce DevelopmentMalariaMaternal and Child HealthReproductive HealthGuinea
September 23, 2021In Guinea, there is a relatively strong Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) in place, and the USAID Global Health Supply Chain-Procurement Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project has developed an interoperability between the LMIS and the health management information system (DHIS2). Since…
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Breaking through Barriers in Ghana to Reach the Last Mile
LogisticsSupply PlanningWarehousing and DistributionCOVID-19Reproductive HealthGhana
September 16, 2021When Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) was launched in 2012, it aimed to make high-quality, voluntary family planning (FP) services, information and supplies more available, acceptable and affordable for an additional 120 million women and girls in the world’s poorest countries by 2020. Ghana made…
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Medicines Mothers Can Rely On
GovernanceProcurementSupply PlanningWorkforce DevelopmentMaternal and Child HealthMali
September 13, 2021Djélika 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…
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Making Contraceptives Available at the Push of a Button
Supply PlanningWarehousing and DistributionReproductive HealthAngola
August 25, 2021A health system’s success is gauged by its ability to serve clients with comprehensive, timely and quality care. Achieving this level of support requires that facilities have available medicines and contraceptives, and capacity to report availability. Frequent stockouts at front-line facilities…
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In Zambia, Three Key Factors Improve Supply Chain Data Reporting in Serenje District Health Facilities
Supply PlanningWorkforce DevelopmentZambia
August 23, 2021For public health supply chains, data visibility is essential to maintaining a reliable supply of medicines and other health commodities. Zambia’s Serenje District has 28 facilities that report data through country’s electronic logistics management information system (LMIS). Of those, 15 submit…
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Launch of New Podcast Episode on Supply Chain Resiliency Amidst COVID-19
LogisticsProcurementCOVID-19
August 20, 2021While the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in communities around the world, there has been a shadow threat that could potentially endanger millions of more people in the world’s poorest countries: disruption of the global health supply chain. So what has happened and what, specifically, is the…

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