Strengthening Logistics Information and Management Systems in Chad

Effective management of health supplies remains a challenge for alleviating the impact of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis in Chad. In collaboration with the Fonds de Soutien aux Activites en Matiere de Population et de Lutte Contre le Sida, the Global Fund is working to strengthen the country’s national response to HIV/AIDS and scale up prevention…

Fostering Responsible Local Stewardship of Global Fund Grants

The Global Fund invested nearly $4 billion annually to accelerate the eradication of the HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria epidemics. To foster local ownership and participatory decision-making, the Global Fund looked to country-level, multi-stakeholder partnerships called country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs). These partnerships worked with organizations receiving Global Fund grants to develop programs, submit funding requests, and…

Our Work in Supply Chain Solutions

From our founding in 1975, Chemonics has worked in more than 150 countries to help our clients, partners, and beneficiaries tackle the world’s toughest development challenges. Chemonics optimizes and streamlines global supply chains to provide critical health and other commodities, maximizing value for our clients and creating impact that improves the lives of vulnerable populations.…

Operating a Global Health Supply Chain in Low-Resource Settings

This post originally appeared on the APICS blog. Companies work tirelessly to optimize supply chain management and enhance end-to-end performance. From agribusiness to information technology, we all strive for better data, stronger foresight and breakthrough innovations. And, of course, we want that all-important metric — on-time delivery. But the global health sector confronts a unique…

Strengthening Health Systems and Access in Senegal

Standard processes are vital, whether they’re for a supply chain that delivers quality medicines or for health workers who deliver quality services. With processes and policies in place, health systems can ensure quality of care, health workforce retention, and sustainable operations that reach communities in need. But creating these processes from the ground up is…

Driving Interoperability Through a Common Language

Whether you’re in line at the supermarket or online ordering clothes, nearly every item has a barcode. This barcode is one of many standardized methods for indicating the quality of a product. With a standard method for product identification and data collection, you can track where a product came from and where it is going.…

Best of the Blog 2018

Check out our countdown to the most popular posts from 2018:* 10. Making Development Dollars Go Further By Spencer Parsons and Gabriel Gonzalez-Kreisberg It will require an extra $2.5 trillion to achieve the SDGs. Can the development community find creative ways to fill that gap? 9. How Can Countries Pay for Their Health Systems? Supply Chains Might…

Enhancing Logistics Management for Ghana’s Health Supply Chain

The Ghanaian Ministry of Health’s five-year Supply Chain Master Plan calls for strong supply chain systems that enable effective management of health commodities. The Global Fund’s Ghana LMIS/RLO/LMD Support program partners with the ministry to achieve this vision across the country. The program focuses on logistics management information systems (LMIS), last-mile distribution (LMD), warehousing and…

News: Chemonics Accelerates Global Health Supply Chain Excellence at GHSCS

The Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS) brings together academics, country planners, NGOs, logistics practitioners, pharmaceutical companies, and donor representatives to discuss emerging trends and tools in global health supply chains. Hosted in Lusaka, Zambia, from November 28 to 30, this year’s summit will focus on accelerating global health supply chain excellence. Chemonics’ heath supply…