January 21, 2025
Today is clinic day at Bechem Hospital in the Ahafo Region, for persons with HIV. Pharmacist Philip Opoku usually enjoys making sure his clients get their antiretroviral medications, especially since many travel long distances.…
Haiti and Zambia recently received donations of isoniazid (INH) 300mg TB medication from Lesotho after a stock redistribution exercise. In March 2021, the Lesotho Ministry of Health (MOH) Supply Chain department, in collaboration with GHSC-PSM, was tasked with conducting an assessment to establish…
Access to extended antiretroviral therapy (ART) refills, or multi-month dispensing (MMD), is being accelerated in Botswana. Jwaneng Mine Hospital is one of the largest health facilities in the country serving a population of over 18,000 people and provides life-saving ART to at least 710 HIV…
Since 2017, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project has provided technical assistance to South Sudan to improve the availability and quality of data for family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) commodities to help ensure contraceptive…
The mainstay of HIV treatment is the triple combination of specific medications. When taken as instructed, it reduces a patient’s viral load, enabling a long and healthy life. Before the current optimal antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, tenofovir/lamivudine/dolutegravir (TLD), tenofovir/lamivudine/…
In Cameroon, the current supply chain of HIV commodities operates through a network that comprises the “Centrale Nationale d’Approvision-nement en Médicaments et Consommables Médicaux Essentiels’’ (CENAME), which ensures central storage and distribution down to 10 Regional Funds for Health…
With an increase in COVID-19 cases during the second quarter of 2021, Thailand and Lao PDR tightened its border controls, which impacted a planned shipment of 70,000 USAID GHSC-PSM-procured long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) that was supposed to arrive in Vientiane, Lao PDR via Bangkok…