Communities Together —Accelerating Uptake of Promising New HIV/AIDS Medicines

With potential new HIV treatment options on the horizon, how can a successful transition between regimens be secured at a country and local level? Drawing on our USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project’s recent role in the transition to TLD – the currently preferred first-line ARV – we share some advice.
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Ready. Set. Prepared: How the One Health Approach Strengthens National Epidemic Response

A unilateral sector approach is insufficient in the face of epidemics that don’t respect borders or species. USAID’s HRH2030 One Health activity facilitates multisectoral coordination and collaboration to increase local capacity to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to epidemic threats.
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5 Steps to Better Government Supply Chain Technology

Our LMIS Advisor in Ghana Philip Lule shares key elements that are essential to addressing information systems implementation challenges in developing countries.
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3 Ways to Better Protect Medicine Quality and Safety in Supply Chains

Wouldn’t you want to know if the milk you were buying was spoiled or your vegetables were rotten on the inside? In global health supply chains, it’s not just about what you deliver or when you deliver it, but it’s also critical to consider “how” we deliver these vital commodities. Ensuring the medicines and other health commodities we provide are safe for use is just as important as availability and delivering on time.
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5 Reasons We Need Automation to Continually Improve Supply Chains

In any global supply chain, continual improvement is vital to respond to changing technologies and mitigate risks. For a supply chain that delivers global health commodities, the stakes are even higher.
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Partnering with Faith-based Organizations to Achieve Health for All

Faith-based organizations deliver more than 30 percent of health services across sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Africa Christian Health Associations Platform. Without meaningful engagement with this community, we jeopardize our pursuit of health for all.
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Driving Interoperability Through a Common Language

From barcodes on apples to serial numbers on laptops, standard identifiers help ensure product quality and traceability through the supply chain. The same goes for health commodities — lives depend on it.
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Best of the Blog 2018

From socially inclusive development to a robotics club in Moldova, Chemonics’ staff members have shared their insights, opinions, and technical approaches on our blog.
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