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…
Across the globe, countries are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by tasking their national departments of health and other relevant bodies with tracking and controlling its spread. South Africa detected its first case of COVID-19 on March 5, 2020. By December 31, 2021, there were total of 3,475,…
Madame Kolou Guilavogui is a pharmacy dispensing agent at the Boffa District Hospital in rural Guinea. In her role, she is responsible for ensuring quality and inventory of all of the hospital’s medicines, especially malaria medicine. In spite of her work, she didn’t have the proper tools to best…
As part of our ongoing efforts to support Laos’ malaria elimination goals, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project delivered 220,314 mosquito nets to Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Phayvanh Keopaseuth at a handover ceremony in Vientiane on February 25…
Ebonyi State is among five states in Nigeria to begin planning for a Drug Revolving Fund (DRF), a long-term solution for financing health supplies and making them consistently available to mothers and their families. Ebonyi now joins Bauchi, Sokoto, Kebbi and Nassarawa State as they develop…
The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project presented an informational webinar on March 17, 2022, on a new, innovative stock-alert tool called the Drugs out of Range (DOOR) system. DOOR, which was piloted in Angola, aims to increase visibility of low-stock…
Patrick was born HIV-positive in 2017 and lives in the Matero neighborhood of Lusaka with his mother and grandparents. He has received antiretroviral therapy (ART) medication at Matero General Hospital since 2019. In November 2021, Patrick was transitioned to the dispersible pediatric dolutegravir…