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.…
Using private-sector, third-party logistics providers, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project implemented a cost-effective, efficient, safe and secure specimen referral system known as the National Integrated Specimen Referral Network (NiSRN),…
In Guinea, challenges in establishing regulations to govern the pharmaceutical sector have allowed for unregulated and illicit private pharmacies to proliferate. The presence of these establishments increases a patient’s risk of receiving counterfeit or low-quality medicines.…
A single mother living with HIV in South Africa takes her medicine every day to manage her disease. Even so, she has not managed to achieve viral load suppression. Every two months, she leaves her children with her neighbor, walks two kilometers to the nearest taxi collection point, and takes two…
A 2014 assessment of over 730 public health facilities in Malawi found that more than three quarters of them had less than half of the pharmacy storage space needed to meet existing demands, a situation that would only get worse as the population grew
Health establishment workers in South Africa have challenging jobs. Every day, they receive patients in need of essential medicines. The clinicians must provide the life-saving treatment and care that these patients need in the appropriate quantities, but that’s not all—they must also contend with…
Professional Nurse Tauhlole Masemola works at Thusong Gateway Clinic, located outside Lichtenburg in South Africa’s North West province. Thusong Gateway Clinic, like many other public primary health care (PHC) facilities, is the first stop for treatment for many South Africans. The clinic provides…