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…
Donors and country governments are beginning to use activity-based costing, a traditionally private-sector approach to measuring warehousing costs, as a way to better understand cost drivers, identify inefficiencies in warehousing processes and costs, implement process improvements to lower costs,…
Malaria continues to present public health challenges in Rwanda, despite evident progress and ongoing efforts to reduce the impact of the disease. The Government of Rwanda, through the Malaria, Neglected Tropical Diseases and Other Parasitic Diseases Division (MOPDD) has implemented numerous…
Pharmacists across South Africa strive to ensure that the appropriate medicines are always available for patients when they visit their hospital, community health center or clinic. To do this, pharmacy staff employ various methods to track which medicines need to be restocked at any given time.
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In 2016, the Prime Minister of Vietnam issued a decree to use Social Health Insurance (SHI) funds for centralized procurement and reimbursement of antiretrovirals (ARVs) for 106,000 people living with HIV instead of from donor programs.
For more than a decade, the bulk of Vietnam's HIV commodities…
A recent article on “Bringing Data Analytics to the Design of Optimized Diagnostic Networks in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Process, Terms and Definitions” was published in the latest December issue of Diagnostics journal. The authors, of which the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-…
For the last decade, the Contraceptive Security Indicators (CSI) Survey has collected, monitored and analyzed data from around the world to share collective insight about contraceptive security: the ability to reliably choose, obtain and use a wide range of high-quality and affordable family…