USAID: Contracting for Transportation of Public Health Commodities to the Private Sector
Optimized Supply Chain Model Reduces Health System Costs in DRC
In 2017, an optimized immunization supply chain (iSC) model was implemented in Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The optimized model aimed to address iSC challenges and featured direct deliveries to service delivery points (SDPs), longer...Getting Products to People: Recommendations for Funders and Governments
This paper describes four challenges to last mile supply chain financing and draws from our collective experience supporting last mile supply chains, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa: 1. Delayed or inefficient fund disbursement prevents timely health product...Promoting equity in immunization coverage in Pakistan
COVID-19 vaccine delivery in LMICs: How to think about concentration vs dispersion in delivery?
How concentrated or dispersed should COVID vaccination delivery be in different geographic areas and with varying available vaccine supply? Should COVID-19 vaccines be delivered through a few large, centralized vaccination locations (concentrated) or through many...Insights Before Flights: How Community Perceptions Can Make or Break Medical Drone Deliveries
Drones are increasingly used to transport health products, but life-saving interventions can be stalled if local community concerns and preferences are not assessed and addressed. In order to inform the introduction of drones in new contexts, this paper analyzed...Landscape Analysis of Electronic Immunization Registries
VillageReach launched a landscape analysis in 2019 to identify EIR implementations in Low and Middle Income countries (LMICs) and identify lessons in sustainability, implementation planning, functional requirements and improving equity. This research, begun in spring...