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Health security depends on more than strong health systems, laboratories and surveillance networks. It also depends on resilient health supply chains that ensure essential health products and technologies are available where and when they are needed.

When outbreaks occur, there is little time to build procurement systems, supplier networks, logistics partnerships and emergency operating procedures from scratch. Organizations that have already established these capabilities can move significantly faster.

As emerging infectious diseases continue to pose global threats, pandemic preparedness and health security will remain critical priorities for governments, donors, and health organizations worldwide.

In our latest blog, we explore how resilient health supply chains strengthen preparedness, support rapid outbreak response, and help countries prepare for, respond to, and recover from infectious disease threats.

Read more: https://pfscm.org/how-resilient-supply-chains-help-ensure-health-security-through-improved-preparedness/

How resilient supply chains help ensure Health Security through improved preparedness Discover the essential role of resilient supply chains in ensuring health security and enhancing global preparedness.

As diagnostic technologies become increasingly connected and decentralized, procurement strategies are evolving beyond standalone product purchasing toward lifecycle-oriented approaches that consider equipment, consumables, service delivery, connectivity, reporting, and long-term operational support together.

For diagnostics, lifecycle procurement refers to approaches that consider not only the acquisition of products, but also the services, maintenance, connectivity, consumables, logistics, forecasting, and support required to keep diagnostic networks functioning over time.

Through its category management approach, PFSCM supports a wide range of health products and procurement and supply chain models tailored to the operational needs of each program, from purchasing and delivering diagnostic tests to supporting all-inclusive pricing (AIP) contracting for diagnostic analyzers and coordinating complex project-based deployments.

In our latest blog, we explore how lifecycle procurement approaches can help strengthen continuity, improve predictability, and support more sustainable diagnostic networks over time.

Read more: https://pfscm.org/beyond-the-price-of-a-test-building-sustainable-diagnostic-networks-through-lifecycle-procurement/
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Beyond the price of a test: Building sustainable diagnostic networks through lifecycle procurement Explore lifecycle procurement and its role in developing sustainable diagnostic networks in global health.

Healthy children are the foundation of healthy communities.

Today, on the International Day of the African Child, we reflect on the importance of expanding access to the medicines, health products, and healthcare services that help children survive and thrive.

Through initiatives such as the REACH initiative, PFSCM has supported efforts to improve child health outcomes by helping ensure lifesaving antibiotics reach the communities they are intended to serve.

Together, strong partnerships, resilient health systems, and reliable supply chains can help create healthier futures for children across Africa.
https://pfscm.org/pfscm_news/first-shipment-of-lifesaving-antibiotics-delivered-to-nigeria-in-support-of-the-reach-initiative/

First shipment of lifesaving antibiotics delivered to Nigeria in support of the REACH initiative Learn about the efforts behind the shipment of antibiotics to Nigeria, supporting child health through the REACH initiative.

Responsible management of health products remains vital long after they have been used.

Effective healthcare waste management helps protect healthcare workers, patients, communities, and the environment.

This World Environment Day, we recognize the importance of strengthening healthcare waste management systems and supporting countries with practical solutions that contribute to safer, more resilient health systems.

Safe and sustainable healthcare waste management is a critical, but often overlooked, part of strengthening resilient health systems.

This recent story from The Global Fund highlights how eSwatini is transforming its approach to healthcare waste management through a new centralized facility designed to improve safety, efficiency, and long-term sustainability.

At PFSCM, we understand that strengthening health systems goes beyond delivering health products. It also includes supporting the infrastructure, coordination, and supply chain systems needed to safely manage healthcare waste and protect communities and the environment.

Over the past year, PFSCM has supported complex healthcare waste management system deliveries across multiple countries, including eSwatini, helping strengthen safer and more sustainable waste management capacity.

As global health systems continue evolving, integrated approaches to healthcare waste management will remain essential for protecting health workers, communities, and the environment.

A Cleaner Future: How Eswatini Is Transforming Medical Waste Management Every lifesaving test, treatment or medical procedure leaves something behind: used bandages, syringes, tests, protective equipment – but what comes next? Handling medical waste is one of the least visible, yet most critical, parts of protecting health workers, communities and the environment. But...

Nurses are at the heart of care.

In communities around the world, they play a critical role in delivering essential services—often in complex and resource-constrained settings.

Strong systems help ensure they have what they need to deliver safe, effective care every day.

Action saves lives.

Hand hygiene is one of the simplest and most effective ways to stop the spread of infections—including drug-resistant pathogens.

In the face of growing antimicrobial resistance, strengthening infection prevention and control is critical to protecting patients and sustaining effective treatment.

PFSCM marked 20 years last year, and today, it’s the people behind the mission who keep that impact going.

Moving health products across borders is only part of the job.
Ensuring they arrive safely, on time, and fit for use requires constant coordination and adaptability - especially as supply chains navigate conflict, weather disruptions, and uncertainty. This is logistics at PFSCM.

When timelines shift, supply chains must respond quickly — without compromising efficiency.
As Mali finalized a large syringe order, PFSCM worked with partners to reassess procurement and transportation options when demand proved more urgent than anticipated.

A limited quantity of available stock was secured, and 16,000 syringes were transported by air to meet immediate needs, while the majority of the order continued via ocean freight — preserving the cost and environmental advantages of this approach.

To ensure sustained supply, routing was also adapted in response to seasonal challenges, with shipments rerouted through Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

As Massimiliano Berti notes:

“By combining rapid response for urgent needs with careful optimization of the larger shipment, we were able to protect both supply continuity and cost efficiency.”

This reflects the value of end-to-end supply chain support — enabling flexibility when plans change, while maintaining value for money and reducing waste.

https://pfscm.org/pfscm_news/flexibility-and-full-supply-chain-oversight-enable-pfscm-to-adapt-syringe-orders-for-mali-to-balance-urgency-cost-efficiency-and-sustainability/

Flexibility and full supply chain oversight enable PFSCM to adapt syringe orders for Mali to balance urgency, cost efficiency, and sustainability Learn how the syringes supply chain adapts to urgent demands while balancing cost and environmental considerations