One objective under Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals is to “achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.” To achieve this objective by 2030, countries need an increase in health financing efforts both domestically and…
Dr. Dah El Hadj Sidi is a specialist in health commodity management with more than 20 years of experience in the management of essential drugs, pharmaceutical systems and policies, and logistics and supply chain management. Currently, Dah serves as a technical director in Chemonics’ Global Health Division. As a previous senior procurement and supply chain…
A recent article highlighted the staggering disparities that persist in maternal and neonatal outcomes in America. The disparities are in part because of societal and racial bias within the health-care system. In New York, black women are four times more likely than white women to die in childbirth. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are life-threatening pregnancy-related conditions that are sixty percent more…
This post was adapted from one that originally appeared on the USAID Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030) program’s website. Samantha Law is a manager with Chemonics’ Global Health Division and serves as gender lead on USAID HRH2030. People and organizations work daily to augment the voices and rights of women around the globe. There…
The GHSC-PSM project recently shared a report that covers the first quarter of FY2018 (October 1-December 31, 2017). On the crucial metric of on-time delivery (OTD), GHSC-PSM achieved 82 percent for the month of December, exceeding its target of 60 percent. Overall, the quarter’s OTD was 72 percent, more than double that of the previous…
Although we now have the technology to launch an electric car into space using reusable booster rockets, and, to give a more mundane example, can communicate via video conference with people all over the globe on a daily basis, something as commonplace as childbirth is still one of the riskiest moments in a woman’s life,…
Although Honduras has made steady improvements in key education indicators, only 38 percent of students complete sixth-grade reading at grade level. Without access to high-quality books and reading materials, the percentage of students mastering the curriculum remains low across the board. USAID’s Quality Reading Materials Activity (QRMA) aimed to increase the availability of high-quality reading…
In the age of Amazon, efficient global commercial supply chains are essential for successful companies to deliver their products to consumers. These companies use sophisticated analytics, have end-to-end visibility in all aspects of their supply chain operations right down to the last mile, and operate with a level of precision that their customers demand. As…
As always happens around the new year, my news feed is filled with many projections for 2018 — from the economy to politics to entertainment. They got me thinking about what we might expect in the global effort to end HIV/AIDS, and at the risk of being cliché, I offer a few projections for the…
Chemonics International announced this week that the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project, has reached an on-time delivery rate of 71 percent for the month of October. Further, the project has delivered 97 percent of all deliveries in full. GHSC-PSM, launched in 2016, faced some critical challenges in…
The USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management Project (GHSC-PSM) recently shared a report that covers the fourth quarter of FY2017 (July 1-September 30) and also serves as the semiannual report covering April 1-September 30, 2017. The report provides insights into the impact GHSC-PSM has had in 59 countries and lessons…
Dr. Aline Kane is a pharmacist with over 20 years of managerial and technical experience in strengthening the pharmaceutical sector in West Africa in the areas of governance, supply chain management, quality assurance, and logistics management information systems (LMIS). A native of Senegal, Aline previously managed a USAID-funded project in Cameroon, and provided procurement and…