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 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…
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…