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Increasing Access to Mosquito Nets through Schools to Fight Malaria in Liberia
ProcurementLiberia
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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Medicines Mothers Can Rely On
GovernanceProcurementSupply PlanningWorkforce DevelopmentMaternal and Child HealthMali
Djélika Doumbia remembers how frightening it was to rush her newborn son, Karim, to the hospital shortly after bringing him home.  He had fallen very ill due to an umbilical cord infection. While waiting anxiously at the hospital, a health worker explained that using shea butter on the cord…
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Making Contraceptives Available at the Push of a Button
Supply PlanningWarehousing and DistributionReproductive Health
A health system’s success is gauged by its ability to serve clients with comprehensive, timely and quality care. Achieving this level of support requires that facilities have available medicines and contraceptives, and capacity to report availability. Frequent stockouts at front-line facilities…
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In Zambia, Three Key Factors Improve Supply Chain Data Reporting in Serenje District Health Facilities
Supply PlanningWorkforce DevelopmentZambia
For public health supply chains, data visibility is essential to maintaining a reliable supply of medicines and other health commodities. Zambia’s Serenje District has 28 facilities that report data through country’s electronic logistics management information system (LMIS). Of those, 15 submit…
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Launch of New Podcast Episode on Supply Chain Resiliency Amidst COVID-19
LogisticsProcurementCOVID-19
While the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in communities around the world, there has been a shadow threat that could potentially endanger millions of more people in the world’s poorest countries: disruption of the global health supply chain. So what has happened and what, specifically, is the…
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Adapting to the New COVID-19 Environment
GovernanceProcurementSupply PlanningWarehousing and DistributionWorkforce DevelopmentCOVID-19HIV/AIDSMaternal and Child HealthReproductive HealthEthiopiaHaitiIndonesiaLiberiaRwandaSouth SudanZambiaMaliEswatini
When COVID-19 limited both international and local travel, GHSC-PSM adapted its technical support activities to this new reality. Adapting to the context of the COVID-19 pandemic required flexibility, creativity and new and old technologies. In this series of articles from GHSC-PSM, we document how…
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Underpinning Nepal's Regulatory Authority with a Quality Management System
GovernanceNepal
View the original story on the Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program website A fully functioning quality management system (QMS) in countries’ National Medicines Regulatory Authorities is core to achieving quality objectives that ensure that medical products meet…

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