On Tuesday, February 3rd, IAPHL began a discussion titled Looking at the Past to Improve Our Future, which focused on the experiences and reflections that members share regarding the changes and improvements they have witnessed in their supply chains over the past years. In the process, members came to a better understanding of the progress... Read more
New Blog Post at The Pump Highlights A Distinctive Approach to Building Global Health Supply Chain Leaders
Solid supply chains require strong leaders to steward supply chain function and management. Yet, as noted in a recent blog post at The Pump—JSI’s online hub for public health news and opinion, few global health interventions have directly attempted to build strong supply chain leaders. The blog post, “A Distinctive... Read more
IAPHL at the 8th Annual Global Health Supply Chain Summit
In 2015, IAPHL has sponsored 8 members to attend the 8th Annual Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS) in Dakar, Senegal. IAPHL’s sponsored participants included Dagim Mengistu (Ethiopia), David Nyarko (Ghana), Mohamed Musa (Sudan), Adam Rassa (Tanzania), Onojo Otowo (Nigeria), Biayi Franck (DRC), Celestino Kuchena (Zimbabwe) and Zahran Hamad (Zanzibar). Participants are... Read more
Introducing “Warehouse In Box”
To enhance accessibility to medicine and other health commodities across the nation, the United States Government and the federal government are collaborating to strengthen Nigeria’s national drug warehousing system. Read full article... Read more
East Africa: Germany Gives Over Rwf23 Billion to EAC for Health
The German government has signed an intergovernmental agreement with the East African Community (EAC) that will see 30 million euros (about Rwf 23.6 billion) invested in vaccines and health supply chain management to support health programmes in the bloc. Read full article... Read more
Ghana MOH develops plan to ensure effective medicine, logistics distribution
The Ministry of Health has developed a five-year Supply Chain Master Plan to address the current systemic defects in the supply of medicines and logistics in the country’s health sector. Read the full article... Read more
OpenLMIS is a collaboration of domain experts in logistics and supply chains, eHealth information systems and software development
OpenLMIS, a global initiative to support the development of shareable, interoperable, open-source software for electronic logistics management information systems (eLMIS), can help countries meet the challenges they face in managing their health supply chains. Learn more... Read more
Building the Next Generation Vaccine Information Management System: VIMS in Tanzania
In Tanzania, the Immunization and Vaccine Development (IVD) program uses many tools to manage its diverse data. But each of them—manual and electronic—are customized and unique to immunization program needs. Learn more about how JSI is working with IVD and other partners to create an integrated vaccine information management system (VIMS). Read the full blog post... Read more
Highlights from the IAPHL Community: April 2014-2015
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Life sciences needs smarter cold chains to raise global health
A new generation of cold chains needs to be developed for the life sciences and healthcare industry to improve global health standards, according to new research by DHL Global Forwarding. Read the full article from SDH Logistics.... Read more