During the past 18 years, Guatemala’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has had varying degrees of success in designing and implementing a system to track stock levels, distribution and consumption patterns of medicines — critical information that is used to identify risks of overstock, expiry and stockouts…
For many years, the District Health Office (DHO) in Chilubi District — a remote district in northern Zambia — recorded low stock levels of most key health supplies, including essential medicines. As a result, patients lost confidence in both the health system and the people who work in it.
Pharmaceutical and other health commodities become waste when they’re expired, damaged, or otherwise unable to be used. An excess of donations from the 2014 Ebola outbreak contributed to an existing buildup of unusable health commodities across Guinea, taking up larger and larger volumes of…
As of this past summer, logistics managers in Malawi have a new tool at their disposal that will dramatically improve their reporting on health facility commodity stock levels — bringing Malawi one step closer to the goal of saving lives through the reliable availability of medicines and treatments…
Decades of conflict in South Sudan have made the country one of the most logistically challenging environments supported by the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project.
The insecure operating environment is further challenged by weak technology…
Burkina Faso faces various health outbreaks every year. From meningitis to measles, to dengue, the list of infectious diseases likely to occur is long and disturbing. With the possibility of such outbreaks, the country is improving prevention and response by:
Pre-positioning health commodities…