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 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…
The 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…
Global 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…
Imagine having to procure 36 units of an important medicine, when your hospital needs only two, because of supplier minimum order quantities. One of the advantages that the National Surveillance Center (NSC) has brought to the South African public health supply chain is the ability to identify…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – also known as drones – have proven to be an innovative mode of transporting life-saving health commodities to hard-to-reach areas. From July 2019 through February 2020, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project…
The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project joined global partners at this year's Health and Humanitarian Logistics (HHL) Conference to discuss the impact of COVID-19, and presented on Ensuring ARV availability for multi-…