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PFSCM joins the WHO-led Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health
We are pleased to announce that the partnership for Supply Chain Management has recently become a non-state member of the WHO-led Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health (ATACH). This collaboration is dedicated to supporting WHO Member States in...
Improving access and strengthening supply chains for injection drug use harm reduction tools in low- and middle-income countries
By Tim Meehan, PFSCM Senior Laboratory Technical Advisor. People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) are a key population of focus in stemming the transmission of viral hepatitis and other blood-borne pathogens. When products such as syringes and needles are shared between users,...
Helping Pakistan to strengthen its public health laboratory system through the delivery of analyzers, autoclaves, and biosafety cabinets
Late in 2022 and early in 2023, the Partnership for Supply Chain Management (PFSCM) delivered autoclaves, biosafety cabinets (BSCs), and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) based multi-disease testing platforms (analyzers) worth more than $2.5 million to Pakistan to help...
Smart and swift supply chain actions for urgent and cold chain deliveries to Haiti
In 2022, PFSCM offered Haiti special support, first when the country urgently needed Dried Blood Spot test kits and later when escalating social unrest threatened to disrupt the fragile health supply chain. Around mid-2022, PFSCM responded swiftly to ensure a large...
Rallying as supply chain stakeholders to solve a unique HS code issue for Guinea
In 2022, PFSCM collaborated with a host of supply chain stakeholders to solve a unique issue of unaligned Harmonized System (HS) codes for a large time- and temperature-sensitive order of COVID-19 products originating from Asia and destined for Guinea. HS code is the...
Overcoming trade restrictions, production delays and reefer shortages to deliver MRDTs to Pakistan
PFSCM has been serving Pakistan since 2010 on an ongoing basis. In 2019, 2021, and again in 2022 PFSCM assisted the country with emergency orders for HIV and malaria testing and treatment products. In 2022, despite Pakistan’s trade restrictions on imports from India,...
First shipment of Next Generation Sequencers and reagents delivered to Benin
Countries are shifting from pandemic response to pandemic preparedness and ramping up their diagnostics infrastructures, enabling them to quickly and accurately identify new potential health threats. To improve laboratory infrastructure, many countries are investing...
Ensuring supply continuity of critical goods despite abrupt product registration changes
Early in 2022, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) made sudden changes to its Medicines Registry and importation regulations, impacting orders for health products already placed by the country. The measure further tightens controls on the registration of...
Stakeholder collaboration and process improvements speed up deliveries to Nigeria
Nigeria has always been one of PFSCM’s top countries in terms of value and volume of goods ordered and delivered, and in 2022 it remained a special focus country. Last year alone, PFSCM procured more than $32 million worth of health products for Nigeria and delivered...
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