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…
In Nigeria, central level investments to strengthen systems are having a noticeable improvement on the lives of patients. The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project trained 884 health workers in contraceptive health supply chain management in…
Central-level investments in Nigeria help to strengthen systems and are having noticeable improvement on patient lives. The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project trained 884 health workers in contraceptive health supply chain management …
Using private-sector, third-party logistics providers, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project implemented a cost-effective, efficient, safe and secure specimen referral system known as the National Integrated Specimen Referral Network (NiSRN),…
In Guinea, challenges in establishing regulations to govern the pharmaceutical sector have allowed for unregulated and illicit private pharmacies to proliferate. The presence of these establishments increases a patient’s risk of receiving counterfeit or low-quality medicines.…
A single mother living with HIV in South Africa takes her medicine every day to manage her disease. Even so, she has not managed to achieve viral load suppression. Every two months, she leaves her children with her neighbor, walks two kilometers to the nearest taxi collection point, and takes two…
A 2014 assessment of over 730 public health facilities in Malawi found that more than three quarters of them had less than half of the pharmacy storage space needed to meet existing demands, a situation that would only get worse as the population grew