Supply Lines
“Red Zone” happens every year; here’s what to do about it
By Andy Savoy-Burke, PFSCM Senior 4PL Services Officer. What is the Red Zone? Holiday shopping, and the supply chains that meet that demand, are the main cause of the largest annual demand fluctuation in cargo prices. This affects the containerized ocean and air cargo...
Much progress made by the GAP-f working group in recent months
The Global Accelerator for Paediatric Formulations (GAP-f) — an evolving collaboration among a number of partner organizations — has continued to develop in 2018 and has announced some recent key accomplishments: New website The GAP-f website has been launched, which...
World Malaria Day 2018: Reflecting on the public health supply chain with a focus on IRS
Globally, the efforts to end malaria in endemic, high-burden countries are vast and ongoing. The fight against malaria brings together thousands of entities, from researchers, manufacturers, governments, and funders, to humanitarian groups and non-government...
A look at the supply chain implications of TB regimen changes
Even though tuberculosis (TB) is a curable disease, it is still, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), responsible for 4,500 deaths a day. The reasons behind this are complex and interwoven, ranging from educational and social issues, to a lack of early...
Major donors and health agencies developing Global Accelerator for Paediatric Formulations (GAP-f)
By David Jamieson As we have discussed in news blogs last year, limited treatment options and sub-optimal formulations have contributed to poor adherence and outcomes for children living with HIV. To improve coordination in tackling the barriers to research and...
Big gains in treatment of children living with HIV
Treatment rates for pediatric patients have always lagged behind adults, but now programs like PEPFAR’S ACT Initiative show this doesn’t have to be the case by David Jamieson, PFSCM Senior Supply Chain Advisor In May, we reported on new opportunities for...
Now is the time to take testing of newborns closer to their mother
Pilots have shown that early infant diagnosis can be moved closer to the point of care by David Jamieson, PFSCM Senior Supply Chain Advisor We have known for years that if babies born with HIV do not receive treatment, more than 50 percent will die before their second...
Antimicrobial resistance and supply chain: A neglected relationship
Delegates at the 68th World Health Assembly in May 2015 endorsed a global action plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR), directing the world’s attention toward AMR as an acknowledged serious threat to global health. The recent World Antibiotic Awareness Week...
World AIDS Day — December 1, 2016
This is PFSCM’s 11th year commemorating World AIDS Day. We have come a long way since 2005 in helping to ensure essential commodities are affordable and readily accessible to those who need them. In 2005, an HIV diagnosis was still a death sentence for many people in...
Dare to Innovate – Meeting the Supply Chain Challenge of 90-90-90
UNAIDS' ‘‘90-90-90’’ strategy calls for 90% of people with HIV to be diagnosed, 90% of those diagnosed to be on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and 90% of those on ART to achieve sustained virologic suppression. Additionally, growing numbers of countries are adopting...
Looking back on a decade of strengthening public health supply chains and saving lives
PFSCM is pleased to announce the release of SCMS's 10-year report: "10 Years of Supporting PEPFAR through Stronger Public Health Supply Chains: A report on SCMS Contributions to PEPFAR results." You can find the report in French here. For the last 10 years, on behalf...
Lifesaving health supplies reach patients despite pre-electoral violence
How can people living with HIV/AIDS continue to get the life-saving medical supplies they need in a country undergoing political unrest? Thanks to the preparedness of the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) and its partners in Burundi, operating under such unstable...
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