Unlike most other countries where the project operates, in Haiti the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project manages warehousing and distribution to health facilities, many in remote areas of the country. When first established in 2016,…
As part of its overall HIV/AIDS strategy, the Ethiopian government is aiming to ensure that 90 percent of all people living with HIV in Ethiopia know their HIV status by 2020. Currently, an estimated 79 percent of Ethiopians living with HIV know their status.
The effort to achieve the 90…
In Angola's Luanda province, health centers were experiencing stock level challenges. The National Institute for the Fight Against AIDS (INLS) had been prioritizing distribution of anti-retroviral medicines (ARVs) and rapid test kits (RTKs) based on geographic coverage rather than on caseload…
Guinea’s Ministry of Health (MoH) puts information at the heart of decision-making. The country’s existing Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) provides users data to ensure that health facilities and patients have access to the health products they need. To help revitalize the system,…
In the early 2000’s, three of Catherine Nalungwe’s children died one after another before the age of three. The cause of the children’s death became a source of pain and confusion for the family. Catherine later tested positive for HIV in 2002, but she had no access to treatment through nearby…
Health centers rely on smooth supply chains for the lifesaving medicine they use to treat patients. And to run smoothly, supply chains need highly trained professionals to manage them. That’s why the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project…