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…
As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure! If everyone slept under a long-lasting insecticide-treated net (LLIN), we would end malaria faster. But how can we encourage the use of LLINs to protect people from malaria-carrying mosquitoes if some communities lack access to the nets?
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In March 2022, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project delivered more than three million long-lasting insecticide-treated mosquito nets (LLINs) in Angola. This U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) will benefit about 6.2 million people in…
In the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, access to medical oxygen became a challenge in many countries, including Ghana. In an effort to support the Government of Ghana in managing the pandemic, the US Government provided four (4) Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) plants, twenty-eight (28) oxygen…
Ghana recorded its first official case of COVID-19 on 12th March 2020. To support Ghana’s COVID-19 fight, the US Government donated 12 million vaccines which has contributed to the vaccination of 22.5 million Ghanaians (as of January 2023). To ensure the successful deployment of the COVID-19…
To support countries with urgent needs for personal protective equipment (PPE), GHSC-PSM established a Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) to provide a range of critical COVID-19 commodities to countries requiring emergency supplies to address the pandemic. The RRM featured a virtual stockpile of…
In this new series from GHSC-PSM, we are sharing recent insights and lessons learned from across our country programs. In this fourth and final article, we discuss how an annual customer satisfaction survey, and a web-based customer feedback monitoring system are helping the Ethiopian…