June 24, 2024
Twenty-four-year-old Theresa moved from her hometown in Kwara State to the capital city of Abuja in search of greener pastures. She had hoped to get a job in the city, save money, and return to school. Armed with ambition and determination…
Adolescent girls and young women in Zambia remain vulnerable to HIV infection. In fact, they are twice as likely as their male peers to contract HIV. Limited knowledge and education about the risks of HIV, high levels of risk behaviors such as intergenerational and transactional relationships, and…
In the second article of this new series from GHSC-PSM, we examine how implementation of activity-based costing (ABC) and activity-based management in Uganda has enabled the assessment of actual cost drivers in warehousing and transportation services. Through four well-defined phases, ABC allows…
In this new series from GHSC-PSM, we share recent insights and lessons learned from across our country programs. In this first article, we examine GPS tracking of commodity distribution, which remains challenging in public health supply chains. GHSC-PSM is piloting the development and…
On August 16, 2022, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Global Health Supply Chain Technical Assistance (GHSC-TA) Program in South Africa and the National Department of Health (NDoH) hosted a webinar titled “Supporting the Supply Chain to Maintain Medicine…
Life changed for Grace Mpande in June 2019 when she received the news that she had tested positive for HIV. Perhaps this news might have been easier to hear for the 34-year-old small-scale merchant, had she not been pregnant at the time. “I became momentarily mute,” she recalls. She had been…
Reaching the third 95 – viral load suppression of people living with HIV – can only be achieved by expanding viral load testing to improve treatment efficacy. This is part of the global health community’s efforts to achieve the 95-95-95 goals by 2030: 95 percent of HIV infected people know their…