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…
Collaboration is one hallmark of a successful development project. It allows for capacity building, knowledge sharing, and improved efficiency in activity implementation. For the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project, the End Use Verification…
Awudu, age three, is one of nearly 700,000 children under five years old who received essential antimalarial medicines in the 2020 seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaign conducted in three regions of northern Ghana. His father Mohammed Hardi, a farmer with six other children, is aware…
Understanding the potential adverse impact of COVID-19 on HIV/AIDS services, GHSC-PSM supported Ethiopia's Ministry of Health on multiple strategies to provide a reliable supply of HIV/AIDS commodities.
In Ethiopia, the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was detected March 13, 2020 – a day after WHO…
On March 5, 2020, South Africa recorded its first COVID-19 case. The number of cases escalated rapidly; by September 16, more than 663,000 Covid-19 cases had been diagnosed and more than 16,000 fatalities recorded. By January 5, 2021, there were 1,127,759 positive cases registered in the country…
South Africa has a unique HIV and tuberculosis (TB) burden. It is at the center of the global AIDS epidemic and has one of the highest burdens of TB in the world. An efficient and effective health supply chain that improves medicine availability is critical to addressing that disease burden. South…
uMzinyathi is a district located in the west of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. It has a population of 571,650, of which 93 percent (531,634) are uninsured and depend heavily on state health services to treat the most prevalent diseases in the district: HIV/AIDS, respiratory conditions,…