A board game competition combating climate change
While the Earth is warming rapidly, the importance of understanding climate change and how to respond has never been greater. As Kenya hosted the Climate Change Summit for African leaders in September 2023, ano...
Strengthening Health Supply Chain Resilience in Low and Middle Income Countries
In the quest to establish sustainable, agile, robust, and efficient health systems, low and middle income countries face unique challenges. The journey toward resilience goes beyond overcoming obstacles; it inv...
Breaking Boundaries: Technological Innovations in the Healthcare Cold Chain
In the ever-evolving healthcare sector, ensuring the safe transportation of temperature-sensitive medical supplies is of utmost importance. Healthcare cold chain monitoring systems play a crucial role in safegu...
Building a Competent and Motivated Health Workforce in Africa: The Key to Better Health Outcomes and Delivery
Investing in the health workforce is essential for achieving better health outcomes and delivery in Africa.
Pooled Procurement: An Underutilized Tool in Pandemic Preparedness and Response
One strategy that could significantly enhance the global response to health crises is pooled procurement—a process by which multiple entities come together to purchase medical supplies in bulk.
Surviving and Thriving: The Importance of Building Resilient Health Systems and Supply Chains in Developing Countries
Building resilient health systems requires strengthening the supply chain, which is the backbone of any healthcare system.
Emerging Trends in Supply Chain
The supply chain industry is experiencing significant transformations, which require companies to adopt the latest emerging trends to remain competitive.
The Impact of Climate Change on Public Health Supply Chains: The Urgent Need for Action
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity, with its impacts felt across all aspects of society. The impact of climate change on public health supply chains has received little...
Breaking Gender Stereotypes: The Need for Women in Traditionally Male-Dominated Roles
Gender stereotypes have been a persistent issue in the modern workplace, barring women from fully participating in the workforce across various industries. By prioritizing the recruitment of women in male-domin...
Beyond Equality: Why shifting to gender equity is crucial for women’s progress in a changing world
This year’s theme for International Women’s Day, which is celebrated globally every 8th March, is an exciting one! Why? Because it calls for us to not only advocate for the equality of women and girls, but ...
Gender mainstreaming: What is it and how can you use it to achieve gender equality?
As a women-owned business in the health supply chain sector, PSA is a minority. Health logistics and supply chain is traditionally a highly male dominated profession, especially in Africa. Despite a number of c...
The healthcare sector is environmentally unsustainable. How can you help?
Dealing with healthcare waste is a complex challenge. The healthcare sector has a large environmental footprint, and a study in 2015 calculated that it contributed to 4.4% of greenhouse gases. WHO guidelines pr...
5 Ways outsourcing can help African health supply chains
As with anything else, the decision to outsource will be completely dependent upon the specific circumstances of the organisation and the work that needs to be done, which could be anything from data processing...
8 Steps African health supply chain leaders should take to prepare for the Covid-19 vaccine
Each aspect of vaccine adoption and the logistic chain will need to be addressed in an effective strategy. Countries, on the other hand, are starting from different places, and some components can pose greater ...
Does orientation matter? Improving HR from day one boosts last mile medicine delivery
Although it may seem like a supply chain’s efficiency comes from manufacturing speed and effective transportation, one of the most important ingredients to an efficient supply chain is its people.