Professional Nurse Tauhlole Masemola works at Thusong Gateway Clinic, located outside Lichtenburg in South Africa’s North West province. Thusong Gateway Clinic, like many other public primary health care (PHC) facilities, is the first stop for treatment for many South Africans. The clinic provides…
The rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide led to shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) in health care facilities in many parts of the world – including Central America. The lack of PPE, especially appropriate facial masks, put at risk health essential workers, including those serving HIV/…
The South African National Department of Health (NDoH) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Global Health Supply Chain Program – Technical Assistance (GHSC-TA) are working together to introduce systems and processes to help improve medicine availability for all…
The KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa has 690 health establishments spread across 11 districts. These hospitals, community health centers and primary health care clinics must report medicine availability data to the National Surveillance Center (NSC) on a weekly basis. Primary health care…
In 2016, the Prime Minister of Vietnam issued a decree to use Social Health Insurance (SHI) funds for centralized procurement and reimbursement of antiretrovirals (ARVs) for 106,000 people living with HIV instead of from donor programs.
For more than a decade, the bulk of Vietnam's HIV commodities…
Malaria continues to present public health challenges in Rwanda, despite evident progress and ongoing efforts to reduce the impact of the disease. The Government of Rwanda, through the Malaria, Neglected Tropical Diseases and Other Parasitic Diseases Division (MOPDD) has implemented numerous…
