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),…
In October 2018, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project trained the Ministry of Health (MOH) Supply chain department in Liberia to develop supply plans with PipeLine, a supply planning database and software that allows users to see…
In El Salvador, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) program participated in revising the national treatment guidelines alongside the Ministry of Health (MOH) in 2019 for people living with HIV to include recent WHO recommendations, specifically…
Complex supply chains often involve multiple government organizations to meet a country's health commodity's needs. Coordination between these government bodies is essential to ensure that the supply chain runs smoothly. In El Salvador, both the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Social Security…
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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…
Ensuring Lesotho’s health clinics are stocked with essential supplies is no easy task in the rugged and mountainous nation known as the “Kingdom in the Sky.” Long distance and poor road networks between central warehouses and remote facilities make delivering supplies difficult…
Measuring health facility stockout rates is a way to assess the performance of health commodity supply chains. As more countries transition to automated logistics management information systems (LMIS), more reliable data is available to make routine decisions. However, there has been a lack of…