Success Stories

Success Stories
Remote Supportive Supervision for Supply Chain Professionals in Mozambique during COVID-19
Workforce DevelopmentCOVID-19HIV/AIDSMaternal and Child HealthMozambique
Supportive supervision is a process of helping staff to continuously improve their own work performance. It is carried out in a respectful and non-authoritarian way with a focus on using supervisory visits to improve knowledge and skills of health staff. Beginning in provinces with reported COVID-…
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USAID Investment in Family Planning and Reproductive Health Saves Lives in Zambia
GovernanceLogisticsProcurementSupply PlanningWorkforce DevelopmentReproductive HealthZambia
As a pharmacist at Mwense District Health Office in Luapula Province, Zambia, Ngonga Mwansa counts stock and ensures that health facilities and pharmacies have adequate supplies of family planning and reproductive health commodities. But Mwansa realized that clients weren’t getting what they…
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Improving Data Availability of Malaria Products for Improved Decision Making in Guinea
GovernanceLogisticsSupply PlanningWorkforce DevelopmentMalariaGuinea
In 2018, Guinea’s Ministry of Health (MOH) demonstrated its commitment to evidence-based decision making for health commodities by initiating the roll-out of a nationwide electronic logistics management information system (eLMIS) for a broad range of health programs. With technical and training…
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GHSC-QA Supports National Laboratory for Product Quality in Cote d’Ivoire
Quality AssuranceHIV/AIDSCôte d'Ivoire
FHI 360, serving as the prime contractor for the USAID Global Health Supply Chain-Quality Assurance Program (GHSC-QA), first visited Côte d’Ivoire’s National Public Health Laboratory (LNSP) in 2016. Much of the equipment required for quality testing was broken, creating barriers to monitoring…
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A Reliable Supply of Contraceptives Enables Ethiopian Women to Obtain their Method of Choice
GovernanceLogisticsProcurementQuality AssuranceSupply PlanningWorkforce DevelopmentReproductive HealthEthiopia
Logistical problems and poor management of contraceptive supply orders were complicating the family planning efforts of women who live near the Hawas Health Center in the central Ethiopian town of Adama. “Obtaining our method of choice at the health center used to be a major challenge for us,” said…
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When Inaccurate Data Can Be Life Threatening: Improving Demand Planning at the National Level
GovernanceLogisticsSupply PlanningHIV/AIDSSouth Africa
A single mother living with HIV in South Africa takes her medicine every day to manage her disease. Even so, she has not managed to achieve viral load suppression. Every two months, she leaves her children with her neighbor, walks two kilometers to the nearest taxi collection point, and takes two…