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.…
Improving “product master data” — which is used to communicate essential information on commodities — is critical to strengthening global health supply chains. To this end, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project is leveraging the the GS1…
An HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. With a continuous supply of antiretrovirals (ARVs), HIV-positive individuals can live long, healthy lives and reduce the amount of HIV in their body — which also reduces the risk of transmission to another person. Along with regular ARV use, regular…
Guinea’s Ministry of Health (MoH) puts information at the heart of decision-making. The country’s existing Logistics Management Information System (LMIS) provides users data to ensure that health facilities and patients have access to the health products they need. To help revitalize the system,…
Maintaining proper storage conditions is vital to ensuring the quality of life saving health commodities. Product expiration dates are based on adequate storage conditions, and ensuring these storage conditions helps to protect product quality, and save resources. The challenging task of…
The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project worked with local government, USAID, and other partners to reduce typically long and inconsistent lead times for importing health commodities from as much as eight weeks to an average of four. This…
In the early 2000’s, three of Catherine Nalungwe’s children died one after another before the age of three. The cause of the children’s death became a source of pain and confusion for the family. Catherine later tested positive for HIV in 2002, but she had no access to treatment through nearby…