During the annual quantification workshop in Mali, the national quantification committee estimates the quantity of a health product needed to meet supply needs across the country. Quantification is a critical tool for guaranteeing access to essential medicines and achieving global health goals.…
Last November, GHSC-PSM partnered with the Bureau des Formations Médicales Agréées du RWANDA (BUFMAR) to provide training to key staff and leadership on “Inspirational Supply Chain Management (SCM) Leadership and Change Management.” During the course, participants completed an online SCM leadership…
In October 2019, the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (SSI) asked USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project to identify a solution to the imminent stockout of dolutegravir 50mg (DTG) – an essential medication for the treatment of HIV. The SSI…
Sixty-year-old Jolly Mubanga and his wife have four children and two grandchildren, and live in Ndola, Zambia’s third-largest city. Both are on treatment for HIV/AIDS and receive their medicines through multi-month dispensing (MMD), a strategy that moves patients from monthly to three- or six-month…
Supportive supervision is a process of helping staff to continuously improve their own work performance. It is carried out in a respectful and non-authoritarian way with a focus on using supervisory visits to improve knowledge and skills of health staff.
Beginning in provinces with reported COVID-…
In 2018, Guinea’s Ministry of Health (MOH) demonstrated its commitment to evidence-based decision making for health commodities by initiating the roll-out of a nationwide electronic logistics management information system (eLMIS) for a broad range of health programs. With technical and training…