January 5, 2021In a move towards self-reliance, in 2016, the Prime Minister of Vietnam issued a decree to use Social Health Insurance (SHI) funds for centralized procurement and reimbursement of antiretrovirals (ARVs) for 106,000 people living with HIV…
November 12, 2020Four GHSC-PSM teams are presenting posters at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) meeting November 15-19. This annual event features experts from around the globe dedicated to reducing the burden of tropical infectious diseases and improving global health. We are honored…
November 10, 2020Our staff participated in the virtual Global Health Supply Chain Summit, November 17-19, 2020, contributing to a rich exchange of ideas and lessons learned on preparedness, response and recovery, including COVID-19. Our speakers represented teams and partnerships that, despite many challenges…
November 9, 2020The South African National Department of Health (NDoH) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Global Health Supply Chain Program – Technical Assistance (GHSC-TA) are working together to introduce systems and processes to help improve medicine availability for all…
November 3, 2020In response to COVID-19, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project took USAID’s lead in helping to mitigate the pandemic by delivering nearly 9,000 ventilators to over 40 countries. Since May 2020, GHSC-PSM leveraged its network to provide…
October 29, 2020The KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa has 690 health establishments spread across 11 districts. These hospitals, community health centers and primary health care clinics must report medicine availability data to the National Surveillance Center (NSC) on a weekly basis. Primary health care…
October 27, 2020Global demand for HIV viral load (VL) and early infant diagnosis (EID) testing has risen rapidly as countries scale up their testing programs to meet global 95-95-95 goals – 95 percent of all people living with HIV tested by 2030, 95 percent on treatment, and 95 percent virally suppressed. As…