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
The Logistics of Staying Alive
In this article, GlobeNewswire explores explores how the only way women are going to advance in the global economy is by having income, which means work. However, in order to focus on women’s advancement, the world must first focus on improving women’s overall health. Read the full article from GlobeNewswire.... Read more
Take Stock Launch
Today, the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition launched the campaign, Take Stock, which mobilizes public health leaders, facilitates the development of a common language we can all use to talk about stockouts, and gathers the commitments needed to spur real action. Joining Take Stock is to become a member of a dedicated... Read more
Ensuring Contraceptive Security through Strong Supply Chains
John Snow Inc.’s Carolyn Hart works to gain attention around reproductive health and raise the profile of supply chain management simultaneously. By promoting the importance of health logistics, Carolyn helps ensure people understand the need for strong public health supply chains to get reproductive health commodities to the communities that need them. Read the... Read more