by admin | Oct 10, 2014 | Health Worker Capacity, Malawi, Notes from the Field, Pharmacy, Supply Chain
I am a clinician by profession, serving a population of over 30, 000 in the 25 villages that my health center serves. I am the only clinician at the health facility with a single nurse to assist covering when possible. We recently lost the only health surveillance...
by admin | Oct 7, 2014 | Mozambique, Supply Chain, Technology
It seems like a stretch—using Legos to find efficiencies in a vaccine supply chain. But that was the concept we worked with last week in Mozambique with representatives from both national and provincial level Ministry of Health, UNICEF, WHO, and VillageReach, led by...
by admin | Aug 28, 2014 | distribution system, Mozambique, OpenLMIS, Supply Chain, Technology
A few weeks back, my colleague Rachel Powers wrote about VillageReach’s customized deployment of an open-source electronic logistics system (OpenLMIS) in Mozambique, where it is referred to as SELV (Sistema Electrónico de Logística de Vacinas). Along with members of...
by admin | Jul 29, 2014 | distribution system, Supply Chain
When VillageReach began work with the Supply and Awareness Technical Reference Team for the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women’s and Children’s Health to document promising practices in supply chain management, I was both excited and daunted. Excited...
by admin | Jul 29, 2014 | CCPF, Malawi, Maternal and Child Health
I recently joined Dr. Dalitso Kabambe, the Director of Planning and Policy Implementation of the Malawian Ministry of Health, for a meeting with Jessica Crawford and Zachariah Jezman, Country Director and Project Manager of VillageReach. We discussed Chipatala Cha Pa...
by admin | Jul 17, 2014 | Mozambique, Supply Chain, Technology
How HERMES modeling tools allow decision-makers to see the impact of vaccine supply chain system changes- before they “buy.”You may not think that the world of fashion relates to vaccine supply chains, but let me make the connection. When shopping for that perfect...
by admin | Jul 17, 2014 | Health Worker Capacity, Malawi, Pharmacy, Uncategorized
By Sir Brian Greenwood Professor, Clinical Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Advisor, Vitol Foundation In June I was asked to visit the Village Reach project in Malawi by one of its funders – the Vitol Foundation. Dispensing is an...
by admin | Jul 10, 2014 | distribution system, Mozambique, Supply Chain, Uncategorized, Vaccines
Reposted from Impatient Optimists.org Change does not come easily, particularly to systems that have been operating in a specific way for a long time and where many people have a stake in the decision making. But sometimes it becomes clear that change is necessary to...
by admin | Jun 17, 2014 | Health Worker Capacity, Malawi, Pharmacy, Supply Chain
By LOVENESS KASIYAMPHANJE Pharmacy Assistants Training Program- Class of 2015 My name is Loveness Kasiyamphanje. I am originally from Ntcheu, in the Central Region of Malawi, but I...
by admin | Jun 3, 2014 | distribution system, Health Worker Capacity, Mozambique, Supply Chain
By Wendy Prosser VillageReach Program Manager USA and Mozambique How many times have you seen “other duties as required” on a job description? It infers any random thing that may not fit perfectly into other well-defined responsibilities but still needs to get done,...
