January 21, 2025
Today is clinic day at Bechem Hospital in the Ahafo Region, for persons with HIV. Pharmacist Philip Opoku usually enjoys making sure his clients get their antiretroviral medications, especially since many travel long distances.…
In the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, access to medical oxygen became a challenge in many countries, including Ghana. In an effort to support the Government of Ghana in managing the pandemic, the US Government provided four (4) Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) plants, twenty-eight (28) oxygen…
Ghana recorded its first official case of COVID-19 on 12th March 2020. To support Ghana’s COVID-19 fight, the US Government donated 12 million vaccines which has contributed to the vaccination of 22.5 million Ghanaians (as of January 2023). To ensure the successful deployment of the COVID-19…
To support countries with urgent needs for personal protective equipment (PPE), GHSC-PSM established a Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) to provide a range of critical COVID-19 commodities to countries requiring emergency supplies to address the pandemic. The RRM featured a virtual stockpile of…
In this new series from GHSC-PSM, we are sharing recent insights and lessons learned from across our country programs. In this fourth and final article, we discuss how an annual customer satisfaction survey, and a web-based customer feedback monitoring system are helping the Ethiopian…
With an estimated 650,000 deaths globally, the AIDS pandemic took a life every minute in 2021 despite effective HIV treatment and tools to prevent, detect and treat opportunistic infections. Of this number, about 51,000 persons reportedly died from AIDS-related ailment in Nigeria, which has an…
This story first appeared in, “Driving Last-Mile Solutions to Ensure Access to Public Health Commodities.” Because of the important insights and lessons learned that it provides about cold chain and ultra-cold chain for COVID-19 vaccines, we are republishing and resharing separately.
The…