Supply Lines

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“Tenofivir and zidovudine-based products, including fixed-dose combinations, are in good supply, although there are some challenges with the zidovudine active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) market out of China. Demand for stavudine-based products is dropping fast and...

On the night of December 17, 2014, a short circuit fire engulfed the pharmacy of the regional hospital in Divo, one of the hospitals that provide medical services to the more than 1 million inhabitants in the Loh-Djiboua region in Côte d'Ivoire. Despite the quick...

“USAID’s Supply Chain Management System project is a crucial piece of the American Government’s efforts to serve patients living with HIV/AIDS in Côte d’Ivoire through the PEPFAR initiative,” said His Excellency Terence McCulley, the U.S. Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire...