March 5, 2021Measuring health facility stockout rates is a way to assess the performance of health commodity supply chains. As more countries transition to automated logistics management information systems (LMIS), more reliable data is available to make…
March 5, 2021Measuring health facility stockout rates is a way to assess the performance of health commodity supply chains. As more countries transition to automated logistics management information systems (LMIS), more reliable data is available to make routine decisions. However, there has been a lack of…
March 2, 2021How a stock redistribution tool in Zambia is customizing solutions to ensure malaria patients have access to treatment
Prompt administration of anti-malarial medicines helps patients get back on their feet quickly. When the pharmacy in the Chongwe District Health Office in Zambia ran out of…
February 23, 2021Collaboration is one hallmark of a successful development project. It allows for capacity building, knowledge sharing, and improved efficiency in activity implementation. For the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project, the End Use Verification…
February 22, 2021Awudu, age three, is one of nearly 700,000 children under five years old who received essential antimalarial medicines in the 2020 seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaign conducted in three regions of northern Ghana. His father Mohammed Hardi, a farmer with six other children, is aware…
February 2, 2021Understanding the potential adverse impact of COVID-19 on HIV/AIDS services, GHSC-PSM supported Ethiopia's Ministry of Health on multiple strategies to provide a reliable supply of HIV/AIDS commodities.
In Ethiopia, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was detected March 13, 2020 – a day after WHO…
January 29, 2021On March 5, 2020, South Africa recorded its first COVID-19 case. The number of cases escalated rapidly; by September 16, more than 663,000 Covid-19 cases had been diagnosed and more than 16,000 fatalities recorded. By January 5, 2021, there were 1,127,759 positive cases registered in the country…