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),…
When Mwile Simbeye began work as a pharmacist at Andara District Hospital in Namibia, there was no one to orient him to his new post. The previous pharmacy staff left a few months before he started and, consequently, Simbeye did not have the training to take advantage of the facility electronic…
For many years, the District Health Office (DHO) in Chilubi District — a remote district in northern Zambia — recorded low stock levels of most key health supplies, including essential medicines. As a result, patients lost confidence in both the health system and the people who work in it.
Infectious diseases have a profound impact on economic development of nations. This is particularly relevant for developing countries, where new or resurging infections pose enormous challenges to already fragile health systems. Communicable diseases are the leading cause of mortality in all…
Pharmaceutical and other health commodities become waste when they’re expired, damaged, or otherwise unable to be used. An excess of donations from the 2014 Ebola outbreak contributed to an existing buildup of unusable health commodities across Guinea, taking up larger and larger volumes of…
The Global Data Synchronisation Network™ (GDSN) connects interoperable data pools so pharmaceutical manufacturers, logistics providers, regulatory authorities, supply chain managers, and healthcare workers can share and use the same accurate information about health commodity orders. But…
During the past 18 years, Guatemala’s Ministry of Health (MOH) has had varying degrees of success in designing and implementing a system to track stock levels, distribution and consumption patterns of medicines — critical information that is used to identify risks of overstock, expiry and stockouts…