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…
With an estimated 650,000 deaths globally, the AIDS pandemic took a life every minute in 2021 despite effective HIV treatment and tools to prevent, detect and treat opportunistic infections. Of this number, about 51,000 persons reportedly died from AIDS-related ailment in Nigeria, which has an…
This story first appeared in, “Driving Last-Mile Solutions to Ensure Access to Public Health Commodities.” Because of the important insights and lessons learned that it provides about cold chain and ultra-cold chain for COVID-19 vaccines, we are republishing and resharing separately.
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Assessing the benefits and risks of vaccination and communicating them widely to the public is essential to protecting public health and strengthening trust in vaccines. This was especially true with COVID-19 vaccines, which came to market rapidly due to the urgent need. Many potential vaccine…
Quick action by USAID and the GHSC-PSM network led to an emergency delivery of Nevirapine moved quickly from Cameroon to Ethiopia, ensuring HIV-exposed infants receive an uninterrupted supply of prophylaxis as we enter the new year. Placing medicine in the right place, where it is most urgently…
In this new series from GHSC-PSM, we are sharing recent insights and lessons learned from across our country programs. The third article introduces the call center solution that GHSC-PSM and partners are implementing in Niger to improve the visibility of stocks of malaria products and facilitate…
This is the third story in our series of World AIDS Day "sneak peaks" of soon-to-be-published updates to the A Network Approach to Scaling Up Laboratory Services guide. Since Diagnostic Network Optimization implementation, Eswatini has made significant improvements, including achieving at…