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Roughly 18.7% of essential medicines circulating on the market in Africa are substandard and falsified, which hamper effective treatment. The prevalence of poor-quality medicines on the…
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In Senegal, the first national survey of health care-associated infections, conducted in 2007 by the Directorate General for Health of the Ministry of Health (MOH), showed that the volume…
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Antibiotics are essential for both human and animal health. The symbiotic relationship among humans, animals, and the environment requires a multisectoral, transdisciplinary approach to…
When a nurse receives a patient with symptoms of malaria, she needs to have the proper test kit and medication to diagnose and treat the patient’s illness. To ensure these supplies are available to health workers, national supply chain managers rely on timely, quality data. Getting this data…
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Even without the stress of a pandemic, the health supply chain management is a challenge for Bangladesh’s Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), given its lack of an integrated…
A 2014 assessment of public health facilities in Malawi found that the vast majority had less than half of the pharmacy storage space needed to meet demand, a situation that would only get worse as the population grew.
Between 2016 and 2017, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS…
