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…
Health centers rely on smooth supply chains for the lifesaving medicine they use to treat patients. And to run smoothly, supply chains need highly trained professionals to manage them. That’s why the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project…
During the past 18 years, Guatemala’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has had varying degrees of success in designing and implementing a system to track stock levels, distribution and consumption patterns of medicines — critical information that is used to identify risks of overstock, expiry and stockouts…
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.
Pharmaceutical and other health commodities become waste when they’re expired, damaged, or otherwise unable to be used. An excess of donations from the 2014 Ebola outbreak contributed to an existing buildup of unusable health commodities across Guinea, taking up larger and larger volumes of…
As of this past summer, logistics managers in Malawi have a new tool at their disposal that will dramatically improve their reporting on health facility commodity stock levels — bringing Malawi one step closer to the goal of saving lives through the reliable availability of medicines and treatments…
