Nigeria’s Drug Revolving Fund: A Conversation with Tukur Ibrahim

Drug revolving funds (DRFs) are a financing mechanism used in healthcare to improve access to essential drugs and medicines. The primary goal of a DRF is to ensure a steady supply of quality medications and to prevent stockouts or shortages in public health facilities, such as hospitals and health centers. The fund starts with an…

3 Questions with Dr. Theo Faruna on Ensuring Access to HIV Commodities in Nigeria

1. What are the greatest challenges related to logistics and supply chain management in Nigeria, particularly as they relate to HIV/AIDS commodity transportation and delivery?  Before 2012, the government-implemented Nigeria HIV program operated more than 18 parallel supply chains, which were ineffective and resulted in stockouts and expiries. The unification of these supply chains commenced…

Engaging the Private Sector to Achieve Health Outcomes

Shrinking donor budgets, renewed calls for localization, and countries’ desire to move away from donor dependence require new ways of approaching development. This resource details initiatives and projects that illustrate the efforts and achievements of Chemonics in the private sector engagement space.

3 Questions with Anne Ogoza Ugye on Implementing Malaria Work in Nigeria

1. Tell us about yourself! What made you want to work in the health supply chain sector on malaria? I come from a highly marginalized community in Benue State, Nigeria, and I have always had a passion for children and the less privileged, seeking ways to improve livelihoods since childhood. Consequently, in 1987, I started…

3 Questions with Tom Brown on Championing Innovation in Health Supply Chains

1. What drew you to work in health supply chains? I started out working in supply chain projects in the National Health Service here in the United Kingdom and did that for two years before getting opportunities to work on projects overseas. I’ve now been working in health supply chains in low- and middle-income countries…

Using Prudent Multiplicity as an Approach to Increase Supply Chain Resiliency

As we all experienced, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed fragilities within global supply chains, including the public health supply chains of the more than 70 countries supported by USAID. Consequently, the Chemonics-led USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project—of which I am part—had to confront new challenges including paused manufacturing of essential…

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Widening the Net of Data Capture for Improved Digital Health

Strengthening the quality of services, data, and disease surveillance systems — digital health — is key to achieving universal health coverage and health equity. In countries such the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), poor infrastructure and limited access to communication systems complicate progress on digital health and necessitates extra measures. This is why, in…

Webinar: Navigating the Last Mile: The Impact of Strong Health Systems

Chemonics’ Supply Chain Management Division’s Managing Director Kate Woods moderated the discussion with the following panelists: Jef Imans, Health Supply Chain/In-Country Logistics Strategic Advisor, Connexi Natacha Mugeni, Health Operations Director, Kasha Global Inc Rachel Msimuko Muyoma, Operations Manager, Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency (ZAMMSA) Nchobeni Luundu-Kagula, Community Security and Risk Management Director, USAID Program…

Community Health Workers Offer Solutions to Extend Malaria Services

This post originally appeared in The Frontline Health Workers Coalition. 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…

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,…