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Increasing Access to Mosquito Nets through Schools to Fight Malaria in Liberia
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April 10, 2024 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),…

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Supporting the Supply Chain: Aiding Resilience and Adherence
LogisticsProcurementSupply PlanningHIV/AIDSSouth Africa
The year 2021 marked 40 years since the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Nonceba, or “Ncesh” as she is affectionately called by her community, has lived with HIV almost as long as it has existed. She is at the heart of the AIDS pandemic both as a person living with HIV, and as a…
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My Great Vaccination Experience
LogisticsSupply PlanningCOVID-19South Africa
Across the globe, countries are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic by tasking their national departments of health and other relevant bodies with tracking and controlling its spread. South Africa detected its first case of COVID-19 on March 5, 2020. By December 31, 2021, there were total of 3,475,…
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Reducing Stockouts to Save Lives through Pharmacist Trainings
LogisticsSupply PlanningGuinea
Madame Kolou Guilavogui is a pharmacy dispensing agent at the Boffa District Hospital in rural Guinea. In her role, she is responsible for ensuring quality and inventory of all of the hospital’s medicines, especially malaria medicine. In spite of her work, she didn’t have the proper tools to best…
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Donating Bednets to Fight Malaria in Laos
ProcurementWarehousing and DistributionLaos
As part of our ongoing efforts to support Laos’ malaria elimination goals, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project delivered 220,314 mosquito nets to Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Phayvanh Keopaseuth at a handover ceremony in Vientiane on February 25…
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Operationalizing Drug Revolving Funds to provide health supplies for mothers and families in several Nigerian states
GovernanceLogisticsProcurementQuality AssuranceSupply PlanningWarehousing and DistributionMaternal and Child Health
Ebonyi State is among five states in Nigeria to begin planning for a Drug Revolving Fund (DRF), a long-term solution for financing health supplies and making them consistently available to mothers and their families. Ebonyi now joins Bauchi, Sokoto, Kebbi and Nassarawa State as they develop…
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Opening the DOOR to a New Commodity Stock Alert System
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The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project presented an informational webinar on March 17, 2022, on a new, innovative stock-alert tool called the Drugs out of Range (DOOR) system. DOOR, which was piloted in Angola, aims to increase visibility of low-stock…

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