The global effort to optimize antiretroviral (ARV) treatment is an ongoing commitment to people living with HIV (PLHIV) to improve the efficacy, reduce the costs, and limit the side-effects of their treatment.
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
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.…
On September 16, 2018, Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi inaugurated a new regional warehouse in Nampula in the country’s northern region. With double the capacity of the previous one, the new warehouse is the largest storage facility for medicines and other health commodities in the country and…
Imagine going to the grocery store without knowing how many people you may have to feed and what kinds of food you should buy. And imagine you could only go once a year. Wandering the aisles without a clear list, would you buy too little? Perhaps too much? There’s a good chance your family or…
In Mozambique, a new tool has streamlined data collection in the health supply chain, increasing the quality and standardization of data and improving local health services. The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project has continued to maintain…