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From Crisis to Confidence
Supply Chain HeroSupply PlanningHIV/AIDSGhana
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.…

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Strengthening the Hospital Infection Control Program in Senegal
GovernanceQuality AssuranceWorkforce DevelopmentSenegal
View the original story on the Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program website. In Senegal, the first national survey of health care-associated infections, conducted in 2007 by the Directorate General for Health of the Ministry of Health (MOH), showed that the volume…
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Lesotho’s Electronic Reporting and Requesting (RnR) System Improves Supply Performance and Planning
Supply PlanningWarehousing and DistributionHIV/AIDSLesotho
Ensuring 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…
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Improving Family Planning Stockout Data Quality and Reporting
GovernanceSupply PlanningReproductive Health
Measuring 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…
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Solutions with the Click of a Button
Supply PlanningWarehousing and DistributionMalariaZambia
How 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…
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The End Use Verification (EUV) Survey: A Catalyst for Collaboration
GovernanceWorkforce DevelopmentMalariaMaternal and Child HealthReproductive HealthBurkina FasoGuineaLiberiaMadagascarZambiaBeninCôte d'IvoireMaliNigerGhanaBurundi
Collaboration 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…
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Preventing Malaria in Ghana through Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention
GovernanceLogisticsWorkforce DevelopmentCOVID-19MalariaGhana
Awudu, 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…

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