March 15, 2023Accurately forecasting demand for lifesaving antiretroviral (ARV) medicine each year is an important starting point for making sure it gets into the hands of people living with HIV, reducing their viral load (the amount of HIV in a blood…
February 28, 2023Prior to the implementation of Data Quality Assessment, supply chain data quality and visibility were issues in Sierra Leone, affecting the use of data for informed decision-making at district-level health facilities. The GHSC-PSM project in 2017, began implementing Data Quality Assessment (DQA),…
February 28, 2023As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure! If everyone slept under a long-lasting insecticide-treated net (LLIN), we would end malaria faster. But how can we encourage the use of LLINs to protect people from malaria-carrying mosquitoes if some communities lack access to the nets?
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February 16, 2023In March 2022, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project delivered more than three million long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets (LLINs) in Angola. This U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) will benefit about 6.2 million people in…
February 15, 2023In the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, access to medical oxygen became a challenge in many countries, including Ghana. In an effort to support the Government of Ghana in managing the pandemic, the US Government provided four (4) Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) plants, twenty-eight (28) oxygen…
February 15, 2023Ghana recorded its first official case of COVID-19 on 12th March 2020. To support Ghana’s COVID-19 fight, the US Government donated 12 million vaccines which has contributed to the vaccination of 22.5 million Ghanaians (as of January 2023). To ensure the successful deployment of the COVID-19…
February 8, 2023To support countries with urgent needs for personal protective equipment (PPE), GHSC-PSM established a Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) to provide a range of critical COVID-19 commodities to countries requiring emergency supplies to address the pandemic. The RRM featured a virtual stockpile of…