Ensuring health products
reach everywhere.
Our Work in the DRC
VillageReach has worked in the DRC since 2015, collaborating with the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Prevention (MoH), the private sector and other partners to develop and implement high-impact sustainable solutions and programs, including Next Generation of Supply Chain (NGCA), Supply Chain Investment Coordination and Advocacy (SCICA), and Integrated Laboratory Transport Systems to Stop Outbreaks.
Our work improves health care delivery by building tech-enabled pathways to primary health care and making health products available to people when and where they are needed.
Resources
French Language Newsletter – June 2026
DRC Annual Report 2025
Rethinking Integration, Focusing on Networking and Coordination
Closing the 9-Month Immunization Gap: DRC
French Language Newsletter – March 2026
Strengthening Lab Transport Systems to Stop Outbreaks: Program Highlights (July–December 2025)
Measuring the impact of integrating private distributors in public health supply chains
French Language Newsletter – December 2025
French Language Newsletter – September 2025
Educational Pathways for a Skilled Supply Chain Workforce
From Policy to Practice: Strengthening Facility-Level Waste Management in Côte d’Ivoire and the DRC
The Role of Gender in Building Resilient Health Supply Chains in DRC
VillageReach Lab Sample Transport Portfolio
Press Release – VillageReach Commences Program to Strengthen Epidemic Preparedness and Response Across Africa
Newsletter- Strengthening Lab Transport to Stop Outbreaks – First Edition -2025
Watch & Learn
Améliorer l’accès aux soins de santé pour tous (2:46)
VillageReach croit qu’un autre monde est possible, un monde où chacun a les soins de santé nécessaires pour s’épanouir. Apprenez-en davantage sur la façon dont nous réimaginons les voies d’accès aux soins de santé primaires et sur la façon dont nous fournissons des produits aux gens pour transformer la prestation des soins de santé afin d’atteindre tout le monde.
STEP 2.0 Workshop (5:14)
STEP 2.0: Phase 2 – Coaching (1:39)
The DRC by the Numbers
109.3M estimated population
70% employed in agriculture
2408+ health facilities
where we supported
in 2023-24
7224+ Health workers we trained
in 2023-24
Our DRC team is led by Country Director Freddy Nkosi
Ensuring that health products reach everywhere, wherever people are, for continued provision of health services through innovative solutions, by putting the government’s needs first and partnering with the private sector, is a priority for VillageReach, in order to contribute to universal health coverage in DRC.”
It Takes A Village
Impact Story
– Olivier Defawe, VillageReach Director, Health Systems
To watch the first day’s fleet of drones transport vaccines, medicine and laboratory samples to and from a tiny, hard-to-reach village called Widjifake was unimaginable — especially to this community who had never seen something so up close that could fly. The delivery took about 20 minutes compared to a six hour round trip journey by car or motorcycle on roads and worn down paths. I was awestruck to watch the same vaccines that were delivered by drone being administered to seven children at the Widjifake health center that day, a first in the DRC and Central Africa.
Vaccinodrome Launches
Impact Story
We are eager to leverage the vaccinodrome and make vaccines readily available to people, especially where they are needed,”
– Dr. Elisabeth Mukamba Musenga, National Director of the EPI program in the DRC
With the support of the Provincial Health Division of Kinshasa and the EPI, a vaccinodrome has been set up at the Place des Évolués in the community of Gombe. The first site, which will be installed for the next three months, is located in one of the busiest districts of Kinshasa that is surrounded by several bus stops, hotels, institutions and office buildings. It will hope to vaccine 400 people per day.
