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.…
Liberia’s National AIDS and STI Control Program (NACP) has faced challenges around insufficient information on commodities dispensed to clients and stock status information from service delivery points. This lack of quality data to inform supply planning and distribution decision making led to…
Ensuring an uninterrupted supply of life-saving medicines is essential for people living with HIV/AIDs. Antiretroviral treatments (ART) are among the most effective methods, according to the World Health Organization, for both treating and preventing infections. But it’s not just ensuring that…
Unbroken: Forging Supply Chain Resilience, a three-part USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) podcast, debuted on May 26. The podcast draws on the expertise of Haiti Country Director Dr. Florence Duperval-Guillaume and Supply Chain Architect Joseph…
The Pharmacie Populaire du Mali (PPM)—which manages the country’s public health supply chain—closed the books on its former strategic plan at the close of 2020. After nearly a year of preparation, PPM validated its 2021 to 2025 strategic plan, which serves as a roadmap of objectives, vision, and…
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Roughly 18.7% of essential medicines circulating on the market in Africa are substandard and falsified, which hamper effective treatment. The prevalence of poor-quality medicines on the…
Across the South African public health sector, advances in information technology are playing an increasing role in meeting patient needs, reducing operational costs, and improving efficiency. In the public health supply chain space, the increased use of systems like the National Surveillance…