Contraceptive security is the ability to choose, obtain and use a wide range of high-quality and affordable contraceptive methods. National governments use policy levers to achieve their family planning goals. At the global level, contraceptive security aligns with several Sustainable Development Goals. Detailed, reliable data is needed to identify best practices, assess trends, and target…
Service delivery points in lower- and middle-income countries have frequent stockouts of medicines and contraceptives. One driver of this is a lack of real-time visibility into stock levels of health commodities at facilities. The Drugs Out of Range system provides a user-friendly method of real-time alerting of stock status to those overseeing facility order fulfillment.
The USAID Advancing Universal Health Coverage (AUHC) strategically coordinated with local governments and other stakeholders to design a comprehensive strategy to increase access and uptake of family planning services.
In West Africa, a communication gap between global and regional stakeholders was contributing to family planning stock imbalances in the region. But the creation of a coordinating committee changed that.
Teleoperators monitor site-level inventory status through the hotline, closely track stock transfers or return requests, and transmit emergency orders to district and regional warehouses, providing much-needed data for decision-makers.
Chemonics is committed to building gender-responsive and gender-transformative programming by understanding and addressing the context-specific social norms, power structures, and limitations on access to resources that impact people and communities.
The Seventh Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR2022) took place in Bogota, Colombia from October 31 – November 4, 2022. It brought together approximately 2,000 health systems researchers, policymakers and practitioners from around the world around the theme of the Symposium – Health Systems Performance in the Political Agenda: Sharing lessons for current and…
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Advancing Universal Health Coverage (AUHC) Activity is a five-year, research and development project designed to transform the Surjer Hashi Network (SHN)—formerly known as Smiling Sun—into a sustainable, gender-sensitive, and pro-poor social enterprise aiming to provide quality and affordable health services for the population of Bangladesh. The AUHC…
To frame the work of the Chemonics-led USAID Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030) country programs, we created the Health Worker Life Cycle Approach. This approach helps ensure that Chemonics implements evidence- and policy-based strategies to build, manage, and optimize human resources for health (HRH) in countries where we work. We work with stakeholders…
The American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) annual meeting is the premier international forum for exchanging scientific advances in tropical medicine, hygiene, and global health. It draws health professionals from the development community, government, private sector, academia, and others from around the globe. This year, our team of Chemonics professionals joined in the first ASTMH…
Access to high-quality voluntary family planning enables individuals, couples, and families to improve their sexual and reproductive health, transforming their lives while contributing to their communities’ economic growth and resilience. Yet more than 200 million women who want to avoid pregnancy lack access to modern contraceptive methods. This limits their ability to decide whether to…
On October 12 – 13, 2022, Chemonics staff joined over 250 supply chain professionals from more than 40 countries to discuss the challenges and share experiences in human resources for supply chain management at the inaugural People that Deliver (PtD) Global Indaba in Lusaka, Zambia. The theme for the conference was “Human Resources for Supply Chain…