Botswana has set ambitious goals for controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemic and ensuring people living with HIV (PLHIV) have uninterrupted access to the treatment they need.
People living with HIV/AIDS rely on regular access to antiretroviral (ARV) medications to suppress the amount of human immunodeficiency virus in their blood — or their “viral load.” A low viral load signifies that a person’s immune system is working to keep their HIV in check and limiting…
The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project worked with local government, USAID, and other partners to reduce typically long and inconsistent lead times for importing health commodities from as much as eight weeks to an average of four. This…
Ensuring access to contraception across Angola’s 18 provinces is a daunting task for a single organization. But a new, GHSC-PSM-led committee convenes international donors, implementers and government stakeholders to improve supply chain efficiencies, close information gaps and ultimately, improve…
Ensuring Lesotho’s health clinics are stocked with essential supplies is no easy task in the rugged and mountainous nation known as the “Kingdom of the Sky.” While the distance and poor road networks between central warehouses and remote facilities make physically delivering supplies difficult, the…
An HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. With a continuous supply of antiretrovirals (ARVs), HIV-positive individuals can live long, healthy lives and reduce the amount of HIV in their body — which also reduces the risk of transmission to another person. Along with regular ARV use, regular…