How Telehealth Hotlines and Kiosks Improved Access to Care in Lagos, Nigeria
Learn how telehealth hotlines and kiosks helped improve access to primary health care for under-reached communities in Lagos, Nigeria and what is needed to strengthen referral continuity.
OPINION: Stop Applying for Everything: A Smarter Way to Approach Public Health Funding in Times of Scarcity
The problem In strategic planning conversations with local health departments (LHDs), one theme consistently rises to the top of every SWOT analysis: decreased funding is the biggest threat. In response, many teams do what feels natural. They scan for every possible...Community Health Workers at the Center of Mozambique’s 2026 Health Reform
Mozambique’s 2026 National Health System Law marks a major shift toward a more integrated, community-centered health system. The brief explains how the law creates a Community Health Subsystem, formally recognizes Community Health Workers as a first point of contact...
For Impactful Private Sector Engagement, the Details Matter
As countries work toward stronger, more resilient health supply chains, private-sector engagement (PSE) often plays a critical role. Private companies bring expertise in many areas including transportation and warehousing, telecommunications, pharmaceutical...Building Responsive, Integrated Health Supply Chains in Africa: Achievements and Lessons from the Supply Chain Integrators Investment
Responsive primary health care systems (PHC) must have strong health supply chains to support them. It is only through consistent, equitable access to quality health products that universal health coverage can be realized. Over the past five years, VillageReach...Measuring the impact of integrating private distributors in public health supply chains
In September 2025, VillageReach working with government and partners in Sud-Ubangi province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conducted an evaluation of the use of private distributors as regular suppliers to the provincial public health system. The results of the...Why Funding Alone Won’t Scale Health Innovation
VillageReach supports innovators ranging from drone operators and technology providers to pooled procurement platforms in their engagement with ministries of health. We work closely with national health system managers in Africa to integrate products and solutions...
Building Capabilities in Private Sector Engagement: Our Outsourced Transport Journey
At VillageReach, we believe leveraging private sector capacity for health supply chains is critical to driving sustained impact. Local private companies offer low- and middle-income country (LMIC) governments and their partners a variety of effective and...