Community Health Workers Offer Solutions to Extend Malaria Services

To end malaria, no one can be left behind. However, despite great strides in reducing malaria incidence and deaths, some populations remain unreached. Trained community health workers, because of where they live and the trust people have in them, are one of the best cadres to reach those who have limited access to quality malaria…

Community Health Workers Extend Reach to Prevent Malaria in Nigeria

When floods hit the central Nigerian city of Makurdi during the recent rainy season, Margaret Beetsel knew her work as a community health worker would be more difficult, but not impossible. So, she climbed into a canoe and made her rounds, delivering medicine to eligible children to help prevent severe, and often deadly, malaria. Beetsel,…

Chemonics’ Five Technical Priorities to Drive Health Supply Chain Efficiency in 2023

As the world continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting supply chain disruptions, Chemonics is even more determined to build agile, sustainable, and self-reliant health supply chains in partnership with in-country and global stakeholders across sectors. The past couple of years have been eventful and unpredictable for global supply chain actors, and…

3 Questions with Gaspard Harelimana on Enhancing the Health Supply Chain in Rwanda

Following the publication of the article, “The Quality Management Improvement Approach: Successes and Lessons Learned From a Workforce Development Intervention in Rwanda’s Health Supply Chain” in the Global Health: Science and Practice journal, we talked with Gaspard Harelimana, Assistant Regional Warehouse Manager with Rwanda Medical Supply (RMS), to learn more about improvements to Rwanda’s health…

Women Professionals in Francophone Africa’s Health Supply Chains

For the third consecutive year, the Global Health Supply Chain Technical Assistance Francophone Task Order (GHSC-TA Francophone TO) was honored to celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science by hosting “Women Professionals in Francophone Africa’s Health Supply Chains,” a panel of industry professionals from Francophone Africa, which took place on February 10th, 2023.…

3 Questions with Jiru Bako on Strengthening the Nigerian Health System

1. What drew you to work in health supply chains? My background is in pharmacy. As a pharmacist, I had experiences in hospitals that brought me in contact with patients. I also noticed the effects of a broken supply chain system on their health and needs. I have always liked to assist people and make…

Chemonics at the 2022 Global Health Supply Chain Summit

Recently, Chemonics staff joined 250+ supply chain professionals from around the world at the 2022 Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS) in Dakar, Senegal. Our staff participated of a series of presentations and panels aimed at exploring partnerships, innovations, and approaches for the next generation of equitable, resilient health systems and the supply chains that…

International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP2022)

ICFP2022 brought together more than 3,500 participants from at least 125 countries for the world’s largest scientific conference focused on family planning and sexual and reproductive health and rights from November 14-17, 2022, in Pattaya, Thailand. Twenty Chemonics staff participated at the conference, representing work Chemonics conducted in Angola, Bangladesh, Niger, Rwanda, the West African…

Innovations in Contraceptive Packaging to Drive Supply Chain Efficiencies and Commodity Security

Product packaging is important for contraceptive security. It is relevant at every level of the supply chain and contributes to the “6 rights” of logistics. As a result, USAID, UNFPA, and the Chemonics-led USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management Project (GHSC-PSM) began a multi-year, coordinated effort to consider improvements how products are…