By Wema Kamuzora, Francisca Pratap (CIHEB Tanzania) and Ronald Ng’eno Outside the home of Francis, a traditional healer, a thatched shelter made from wooden poles offers welcome shade. It serves as a waiting area where patients sit, chatting with neighbors or...
Motorcycles began arriving early at Guéyo Health Centre in western Côte d’Ivoire, long before the day’s consultations began. Beneath the veranda, mothers sat quietly waiting for antenatal and postnatal care. Some cradled sleeping babies on their laps,...
When health facilities run out of family planning products, women often bear the greatest consequences. A missed contraceptive injection, unavailable implants, or stockouts of essential commodities can disrupt reproductive health choices and place additional strain on...
Read the French version of the blog here. In parts of Côte d’Ivoire, stock-out rates for family planning products have fallen from 90 percent to 10 percent in just one year—a shift that signals what is possible when national policy is matched with strong decentralized...
One ordinary morning, a mother walked into Lokori Sub-County Hospital in Turkana County, Kenya, desperate for an IUCD. The team thought they were completely out. Joyce Chebet—being Joyce—went back to the store one last time and, hidden behind some boxes, found a...
When people think of supply chains, they often picture trucks, warehouses and the movement of medicines and vaccines from one point to another. But as the Supply Chain Integrators (SCI) investment made clear, supply chains are far more complex—and far more human—than...
