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ISO acts on calls to define standards for menstrual products
16th February 2022In January 2022, the International Standards Organization (ISO) voted to establish a new technical committee to define standards for menstrual products. This historic decision comes as the culmination of a global conversation that...
Category: New/Underused RH Technologies Caucus
LAPTOP scholar discusses conflict, curfews & commodities
15th February 2022The 12-year conflict in northeastern Nigeria has led to the deaths of more than 350,000 people. In a region where conflict disrupts every aspect of daily life, supply chain managers like Nkoli Nnamonu need exceptional skills to...
Categories: Systems Strengthening Working Group, Youth Caucus
Supply chain management video a hit with young viewers
15th February 2022In the first week of its release, some 3,600 viewers, aged 18-34, have tuned in to the first episode of the new LAPTOP video series on careers in supply chain management. More than half the viewers were from Kenya, Tanzania,...
Categories: Systems Strengthening Working Group, Youth Caucus
Reiterating the case for gloves and forceps
8th February 2022In early 2020, an Innovation Fund-commissioned a white paper that demonstrated how the lack of equipment and consumables such as gloves and forceps was undermining the achievement of national and global family planning goals. The...
Category: Innovation Fund
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2nd February 2022Dear colleague,
It’s been the highlight of my career to have led the RHSC and, together with you, helped transform what was once barely an afterthought in the reproductive health discourse – supply security – into the focus of...