Global Health Supply Chain NextGen Comprehensive Technical Assistance

Featured Project: NextGen Efficient Supply Chains Advance Patient Engagement (ESCAPE) Activity

The five-year project builds on MSH’s longstanding partnership with the Government of Cameroon and will focus on strengthening the country’s supply chain and pharmaceutical management system to ensure the consistent availability of high-quality, safe, and effective medicines.

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Overview

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is one of five large organizations designated by USAID as winners of the Global Health Supply Chain NextGen Comprehensive Technical Assistance contract. This indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract award means that MSH and the other organizations will partner with USAID to provide countries with technical assistance on their health supply chain needs for the next 10 years.

Under this contract, MSH and its consortium partners (many based in Africa and Asia and all active in health, development, and/or supply chain work in low- and middle-income countries) can work with countries to develop the capacity of local systems, networks, institutions, and individuals to sustainably manage supply chains and strengthen local pharmaceutical systems. MSH can also advise governments as they shift from providing supply chain and pharmaceutical services themselves to overseeing private-sector innovations and efficiencies.

Fact Sheet: NextGen Comprehensive Technical Assistance for Health Supply Chain and Pharmaceutical Management IDIQ

The MSH Consortium brings together dynamic organizations and leaders from the global and local supply chain and pharmaceutical fields, ready to create meaningful collaborations with the public and private sectors, government entities, community groups, and civil society. Through this partnership, we aim to enhance the efficiency and reliability of health care delivery, ensuring that communities worldwide have access to the essential medicines and health products they need.

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Enabling a Market-Based Approach to Manufacturing Quality-Assured Health Products in Africa: A Differentiated Coordination Approach

Strengthening Supply Chain and Pharmaceutical Systems for Sustained Health Impact

MTaPS Supporting Pharmaceutical Regulatory Systems Fact Sheet

MSH is one of five organizations that will partner with USAID to provide countries with supply chain technical assistance over the next 10 years.

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Buyers United: How Low- and Middle-Income Countries Can Get a Better Deal on Pharmaceuticals

Call for a New Cadre of Pharmaceutical Professionals to Strengthen LMIC Systems

In Madagascar, Collaboration Is Key to Getting Medicines to the Last Mile

USAID MTaPS Webinar Series: Pharmaceutical Systems Strengthening (PSS) Learning Series

MTaPS is pleased to announce a new webinar series that will convene experts from across the globe to highlight the importance of pharmaceutical systems strengthening in advancing global health goals.

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From Data to Action: Shaping People-Centered Health Systems – Learning from the People’s Voice Survey on Health System Performance

The Road to Resilient Public Health Systems: A People-Centered Approach to Strengthening Emergency Preparedness and Response

Time to Adapt: Accelerating Climate Adaptation for Health Equity—Catalyzing Solutions for Community Action

Hear Management Sciences for Health supply chain systems expert René Berger discuss strategies to promote greater availability of HIV medicines by streamlining the supply chain. Berger reviews challenges and opportunities to improve access, the potential for the private sector to partner with governments and how interaction among major donors might be improved.

Since 2017, the Safe, Affordable, and Effective Medicines (SAFEMed) for Ukrainians Activity—funded by USAID and implemented by MSH—has partnered with the Ministry of Health to streamline the governance and management of the pharmaceutical supply chain to ensure reliable and affordable access to lifesaving medicines, particularly to fight HIV and TB. Localization has been at the heart of this alliance, working with the government and a local logistics company to ensure treatments make it to service delivery sites. SAFEMed’s Chief of Party, Rebecca Kohler, discusses lessons learned as the program enters its sixth year.

What steps should countries take to improve their health supply chains? In this short video, MSH supply chain management expert Gashaw Shiferaw explains what makes supply chains flexible and resilient, how the private sector can play a unique role, and why digital visibility of the supply chain is so critical.

While supply chains were hit hard during the pandemic, the resulting disruptions validated many promising practices that already were underway before COVID-19 struck, including initiatives to fully digitize systems and leverage the private sector to reach underserved communities. In this short video, MSH supply chain expert Stephanie Xueref reflects on lessons learned from the pandemic, what supply chain improvement efforts in Uganda and Ukraine can teach us, and factors donors and governments must consider when developing national supply chain strategies.