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…

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…

Promoting Supply Chain Integration in Côte d’Ivoire

USAID partnered with the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene in Côte d’Ivoire to build a health product supply chain system with end-to-end visibility that will serve as a model in West Africa. This investment significantly improved the availability of health products for HIV/AIDS, malaria, maternal and child health, and family planning. USAID’s Integrated Health…

Who Says Math Isn’t Cool? Applying Mathematical Optimization in Public Health Supply Chains

Across industries, companies work tirelessly to optimize their supply chains to get customers what they want, when they want it, and spend as little money as possible in the process. From agribusiness to e-commerce and information technology, companies strive for better data, stronger foresight, and breakthrough innovations that allow them to deliver high-quality goods faster…

News: Chemonics Responds to House Foreign Affairs Committee Report about the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management Project

On October 15, 2018, the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) published a report, Oversight Investigation: USAID Global Health Supply Chain Contract. The report offers key findings and recommendations for the many stakeholders of the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project, including USAID, the State Department’s Office of the…

Dr. Charlemagne Gnoula

Dr. Charlemagne Gnoula is a pharmacist with more than 16 years of experience with the health supply chain in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Prior to joining the Global Health Supply Chain – Technical Assistance (GHSC-TA) Francophone Task Order (TO), Charlemagne served as a general manager of CAMEG, Burkina Faso’s central medical store for essential medicines…

News: USAID and Chemonics Selected as Government Innovation Awards Winners

Chemonics updated this story on September 9, 2019. The transformative power of information technology (IT) infiltrates the day-to-day lives of people around the world — from the once-remote communities who now embrace social media to the youth who were excluded from finance but are now using mobile money. Across geographical borders and technical sectors, IT…

The 21st Century Goldilocks: Using Technology to Monitor the Temperature of Health Commodities

From the agricultural to the health sector, an enormous quantity of commodities moves through supply chains. But as these agricultural goods, medicines, or health commodities travel all the way from manufacturer to patient, how can we continuously monitor their temperature and conditions to maintain their quality and effectiveness? This is particularly vital in the health…