January 21, 2025
Today is clinic day at Bechem Hospital in the Ahafo Region, for persons with HIV. Pharmacist Philip Opoku usually enjoys making sure his clients get their antiretroviral medications, especially since many travel long distances.…
While the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in communities around the world, there has been a shadow threat that could potentially endanger millions of more people in the world’s poorest countries: disruption of the global health supply chain. So what has happened and what, specifically, is the…
When COVID-19 limited both international and local travel, GHSC-PSM adapted its technical support activities to this new reality. Adapting to the context of the COVID-19 pandemic required flexibility, creativity and new and old technologies. In this series of articles from GHSC-PSM, we document how…
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A fully functioning quality management system (QMS) in countries’ National Medicines Regulatory Authorities is core to achieving quality objectives that ensure that medical products meet…
In South Sudan, nearly 30 percent of married women have an unmet need for a modern method of contraception. Overall, the contraceptive prevalence rate is only 3 percent. To improve access to family planning in South Sudan, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply…
A silent movement of HIV/AIDS patients takes place between the Angola-Namibia border. Some 4,000 Angolans in remote areas of the country where antiretrovirals (ARVs) are hard to come by seek and receive ARV treatment (ART) in Namibia’s Kavango East and Kavango West regions. In turn, Namibian health…
The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project will be holding the project’s virtual ARV Supplier’s Conference on August 10th and August 17th . The objective of this conference is to reflect on joint achievements to date in the antiretroviral (ARV…