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.…
In September, GHSC-PSM supported Mozambique’s National Institute of Health (INS) and other partners to launch the Emergency Supply Chain Playbook, a tool that aims to help countries effectively prepare for and respond to pandemic threats and other public health emergencies. Several countries have…
Great strides have been made in HIV treatments in the past several decades, especially with adult antiretrovirals (ARVs) and formulations. But a solemn report from UNAIDS in July 2021 showed that “almost half (46%) of the world’s 1.7 million children living with HIV (CLHIV) were not on treatment in…
In April, the second wave of COVID-19 dealt a devastating blow to Nepal, leading to a scramble for hospital beds and bottled oxygen amid the country’s shortage of medical supplies. In response, the Government of Nepal (GoN) asked GHSC-PSM and the World Food Program to support delivery and inventory…
Djélika 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…
For 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…
While 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…