Combatting Malaria in LiberiaMalaria is a leading cause of illness and death in Liberia, with year-round transmission. In 2021(country population: over 5.1 million),1.9 million cases were reported by the World Health Organization (WHO), with an estimated 3,600 deaths due to malaria. Despite a…
Many medications and medical products are susceptible to heat, humidity, and other circumstances. Zimbabwe’s temperatures range seasonally between six and 38 degrees Celsius (42-100 degrees Fahrenheit), and humidity can vary between 42 percent and 75 percent, presenting a significant challenge to…
Something kept nagging at Kelechi Enweruzo-Amaefule. He had helped transport, lock away and incinerate unusable pharmaceutical products to keep them from landing in the black market or harming the environment. But now that they had been destroyed, he puzzled over what to do with the remaining,…
The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project organized a three-day training in Lagos on November 1-3, 2021 for 7 officials from the Family Health Department (FHD), National Product Supply Chain Management Program and the United Nations Population…
Ginika Nniekwe, a 32-year-old housewife and mother of four, lives in the Okputimo-Onunkwuago community near Abakaliki in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. She received antenatal care at a health clinic in her community and recalled listening to a health worker discuss the benefits of chlorhexidine 4% gel (CHX…
Zainab is a fifty-two-year-old grandmother and trader living with HIV since 2009. She lives in Lafiagi, a remote community in Kwara State, Nigeria, and has been facing extreme difficulties accessing laboratories providing viral load testing services. The closest laboratory to her village is 78…
