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…
A 2014 assessment of public health facilities in Malawi found that the vast majority had less than half of the pharmacy storage space needed to meet demand, a situation that would only get worse as the population grew.
Between 2016 and 2017, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS…
Zainab is a fifty-two-year-old grandmother and trader living with HIV since 2009. She lives in Lafiagi, a remote community in Kwara State, Nigeria, and has been facing extreme difficulties accessing laboratories providing viral load testing services. The closest laboratory to her village is 78…
Nepal has made significant improvement in maternal health over the past two decades. The maternal mortality ratio decreased between 1996 and 2016 from 539 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, to 239 deaths per 100,000 live births. Despite this, Nepal is still ranked 46th among countries…
Back in 2016, Primary Healthcare Center (PHC) West Itam in the Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, Nigeria grappled with challenges ranging from inadequate staff to poor uptake of healthcare services due to an inadequate supply of medicines, healthcare personnel, and basic infrastructure. Mercy…
Forecasting and supply planning (FASP) combines data from past supply plans with insights about demand, to help make the best decisions for procurement. In Nepal, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project supported a three-day workshop on…
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In Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) is responsible for the health services of its people. As part of that job, a large focus of its work is to ensure the…