April 13, 2021The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project has launched a podcast series!
Health on Ice captures the lessons learned from transportation of critical health commodities in low-resource…
March 30, 2021Complex supply chains often involve multiple government organizations to meet a country's health commodity's needs. Coordination between these government bodies is essential to ensure that the supply chain runs smoothly. In El Salvador, both the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Social Security…
March 25, 2021Ensuring Lesotho’s health clinics are stocked with essential supplies is no easy task in the rugged and mountainous nation known as the “Kingdom in the Sky.” Long distance and poor road networks between central warehouses and remote facilities make delivering supplies difficult…
March 5, 2021Measuring health facility stockout rates is a way to assess the performance of health commodity supply chains. As more countries transition to automated logistics management information systems (LMIS), more reliable data is available to make routine decisions. However, there has been a lack of…
March 2, 2021How a stock redistribution tool in Zambia is customizing solutions to ensure malaria patients have access to treatment
Prompt administration of anti-malarial medicines helps patients get back on their feet quickly. When the pharmacy in the Chongwe District Health Office in Zambia ran out of…
February 23, 2021Collaboration is one hallmark of a successful development project. It allows for capacity building, knowledge sharing, and improved efficiency in activity implementation. For the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project, the End Use Verification…
February 22, 2021Awudu, age three, is one of nearly 700,000 children under five years old who received essential antimalarial medicines in the 2020 seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaign conducted in three regions of northern Ghana. His father Mohammed Hardi, a farmer with six other children, is aware…