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.…
The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project is excited to share our experience innovating supply chain systems with attendees at the Humanitarian Health and Logistics Conference in Dubai, U.A.E. from July 18-19, 2018. The conference provides an…
When you take a medicine, you trust it will be safe and effective, but that’s not always the case. In low- and middle-income countries, one in ten medical products is poor quality and can even harm patient’s health, according to the World Health Organization. The use of global standards can help…
As part of the project's commitment to sharing information and collaborating with the greater unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) community, GHSC-PSM has released a UAV procurement guide. This guide is based on our experience procuring UAVs to explore their use in public …
When Mwile Simbeye began work as a pharmacist at Andara District Hospital in Namibia, there was no one to orient him to his new post. The previous pharmacy staff left a few months before he started and, consequently, Simbeye did not have the training to take advantage of the facility electronic…
For many years, the District Health Office (DHO) in Chilubi District — a remote district in northern Zambia — recorded low stock levels of most key health supplies, including essential medicines. As a result, patients lost confidence in both the health system and the people who work in it.
Infectious diseases have a profound impact on economic development of nations. This is particularly relevant for developing countries, where new or resurging infections pose enormous challenges to already fragile health systems. Communicable diseases are the leading cause of mortality in all…