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…
Since 2017, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project has provided technical assistance to South Sudan to improve the availability and quality of data for family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) commodities to help ensure contraceptive…
The mainstay of HIV treatment is the triple combination of specific medications. When taken as instructed, it reduces a patient’s viral load, enabling a long and healthy life. Before the current optimal antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, tenofovir/lamivudine/dolutegravir (TLD), tenofovir/lamivudine/…
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, a valuable additional option for people who are at higher risk of contracting HIV, is now available to key populations in Zambia as PrEP's global uptake continues to rise.
Jessy Phiri, a 44-year-old mother and wife, travels…
The USAID GHSC-PSM project has worked to ensure the continued supply of contraceptives in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, since 2016, helping avert an estimated 2.3 million unplanned pregnancies, 12,000 maternal deaths and 57,000 child deaths in the first five years alone. To learn more…
In Cameroon, the current supply chain of HIV commodities operates through a network that comprises the “Centrale Nationale d’Approvision-nement en Médicaments et Consommables Médicaux Essentiels’’ (CENAME), which ensures central storage and distribution down to 10 Regional Funds for Health…
With an increase in COVID-19 cases during the second quarter of 2021, Thailand and Lao PDR tightened its border controls, which impacted a planned shipment of 70,000 USAID GHSC-PSM-procured long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) that was supposed to arrive in Vientiane, Lao PDR via Bangkok…