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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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New Tools Lay Foundation to Improve Antibiotic Use in the Animal Sector in Uganda
GovernanceQuality AssuranceUganda
View the original story on the Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS) Program website. Antibiotics are essential for both human and animal health. The symbiotic relationship among humans, animals, and the environment requires a multisectoral, transdisciplinary approach to…
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Global Health Supply Chain Summit 2020
GovernanceLogisticsProcurementQuality AssuranceSupply PlanningWorkforce DevelopmentCOVID-19HIV/AIDSMaternal and Child HealthReproductive HealthSouth SudanZambiaEswatini
Our staff participated in the virtual Global Health Supply Chain Summit, November 17-19, 2020, contributing to a rich exchange of ideas and lessons learned on preparedness, response and recovery, including COVID-19. Our speakers represented teams and partnerships that, despite many challenges…
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Owning the Process: How Sarah Baartman District Adopted and Utilized SVS to Maintain Exceptional Medicine Availability
GovernanceSupply PlanningWorkforce DevelopmentCOVID-19HIV/AIDSSouth Africa
The South African National Department of Health (NDoH) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Global Health Supply Chain Program – Technical Assistance (GHSC-TA) are working together to introduce systems and processes to help improve medicine availability for all…
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Delivering Ventilators in the Global Response to COVID-19
LogisticsProcurementCOVID-19
In response to COVID-19, the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project took USAID’s lead in helping to mitigate the pandemic by delivering nearly 9,000 ventilators to over 40 countries. Since May 2020, GHSC-PSM leveraged its network to provide…
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Reporting Compliance: Continuous Improvement in Medicine Availability Reporting in KwaZulu Natal Province
Supply PlanningWorkforce DevelopmentSouth Africa
The KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa has 690 health establishments spread across 11 districts. These hospitals, community health centers and primary health care clinics must report medicine availability data to the National Surveillance Center (NSC) on a weekly basis. Primary health care…
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Viral Load Diagnostics
ProcurementHIV/AIDS
Global demand for HIV viral load (VL) and early infant diagnosis (EID) testing has risen rapidly as countries scale up their testing programs to meet global 95-95-95 goals – 95 percent of all people living with HIV tested by 2030, 95 percent on treatment, and 95 percent virally suppressed. As…

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