Pharmacists across South Africa strive to ensure that the appropriate medicines are always available for patients when they visit their hospital, community health center or clinic. To do this, pharmacy staff employ various methods to track which medicines need to be restocked at any given time.
In…
Malaria is among the principal causes of morbidity and mortality in the DRC, accounting for an estimated 40 percent of outpatient visits to health facilities among children under five years of age and 40 percent of overall child mortality. The President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) estimates that the…
GHSC-PSM kicked off 2017 with the completion of its first full-cycle procurement of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs), from requisition order receipt to quality assurance to delivery.
The order of 570,474 LLINs was delivered to three provinces in Tanzania and one in…
Last fall, staff in GHSC-PSM’s first country buy-in — Mozambique — completed a complex regional warehouse move to an upgraded location. The Nampula regional warehouse opened for business on Sept. 26.
The new warehouse has a sturdier floor and roof, defined office space, and a perimeter around the…
uMzinyathi is a district located in the west of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. It has a population of 571,650, of which 93 percent (531,634) are uninsured and depend heavily on state health services to treat the most prevalent diseases in the district: HIV/AIDS, respiratory conditions,…
How a stock redistribution tool in Zambia is customizing solutions to ensure malaria patients have access to treatment
Prompt administration of anti-malarial medicines helps patients get back on their feet quickly. When the pharmacy in the Chongwe District Health Office in Zambia ran out of…
