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VidaGas: A Case Study
VidaGas: A Case Study
UAV Project: The Use of Drones in Transporting Vaccines From the Factory to the Patient
With almost half of the globe’s population having currently sporadic or even no access to health care and medicine, the technology of using drones (UAVs) to increase access, speed and efficiency is more and more evaluated in a logistics ecosystem. In 2021, Pharma.Aero initiated…
How to Transition Well: A Q&A with VillageReach Sustainability Leaders
When VillageReach proves that a program is working, we don’t just pat ourselves on the back and continue on. Instead, we work to transition program management or operation to the government, so that it can be sustained for the long term. This may seem…
Living Our Values Since Day One
It all started with a plane, a cyclone and a desire to help people. In 1999, Graça Machel and her husband Nelson Mandela boarded a plane to Seattle. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Craig and Susan McCaw Foundation sponsored their trip,…
The government of Côte d’Ivoire opens a high-volume vaccine site to provide COVID-19 vaccines
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (January 14, 2022) – The end of December marked the opening of the new high-volume vaccine site (HVS) located at Yopougon, a suburb of Abidjan, at the BAE Sports Complex. In order to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines get to adults – on…
Managing change: Integrating vaccine and medicine supply chains
Many countries rely on external development assistance for health care, which has resulted in individual disease specific programs with separate supply chains, such as vaccines, malaria, HIV/AIDS, family-planning, essential medicines and other health products. Specifically, vaccine supply chains require cold chain to maintain their…
The quest to improve polio specimen transport in the Democratic Republic of Congo
See French version here. Once suspected cases of poliomyelitis, which presents as sudden paralysis of the arms or legs, are identified in the community, a race against time begins. Emmanuel Amuri is Head of Branch at LOGISTIQUExpress, a company specializing in the transport of…