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.…
GHSC-PSM is currently working on an update to the groundbreaking resource A Network Approach to Scaling Up Laboratory Services, for publication next year. This World AIDS Day, we are sharing a few ‘sneak peeks’ of the new content, including these two case studies from Nigeria and Rwanda that…
When Rwanda reported the country’s first case of COVID-19 in March 2020, the government responded quickly by closing schools and churches and prohibiting mass gatherings. As cases surged in the ensuing weeks, the government imposed a countrywide lockdown. It urged stringent precautionary measures,…
GHSC-PSM is presenting six of its global and country-focused activities at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP 2022) - November 14-17 in Pattaya, Thailand. This annual event features experts from around the globe dedicated to ensuring access to family planning commodities for…
Malawi’s health sector is embarking on a progressive digital transformation where technology will be the heartbeat for improvements in the delivery of quality medicines from manufacturers to patients. The revolution has been initiated with the launching of the Supply Chain Systems Architecture for…
Poor infrastructure can complicate gathering data in real-time or near real-time to accurately forecast health facility needs for contraceptives and life-saving medicines. In supply chain management, the human element can be just as important when it comes to getting accurate data for decision-…
When COVID-19 vaccines arrived in countries worldwide in early 2021, the supply chain faced a familiar problem: storage of vaccines at very low temperatures. Most COVID-19 vaccines must be kept ultra-cold as they move along the supply chain—as low as 80 degrees Celsius for some.
The term ‘’cold…