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Director's message - March 2023

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Dear Members, Partners, Colleagues, and Friends, I write to you as the first quarter of 2024 draws to a close, but truth be told, the RHSC Secretariat has been so industrious and productive in the last three months...

New 2023 scorecard and infographic speak to spectacular VAN impact

Between 2020 and 2023, the VAN helped procurers mobilize and/or allocate more than $109 million in new orders for member countries, avoided waste by supporting at least $5.39 million worth of cancelled, postponed, and transferred...

Category: Global FP VAN

ForoLAC oversees donation of 200 teaching devices

ForoLAC recently procured 200 model uteruses for the Dominican Republic’s health ministry, as part of RHSC’s agreement with USAID, using USAID funding. These resources will serve as training devices for the correct insertion and...

Category: ForoLAC

New report explores demand for, production capacity of, MH supplies in sub-Saharan Africa

A new report assesses the demand for—and manufacturing capacity of—five essential maternal health (MH) commodities across eight SSA countries. Produced by US Pharmacopeia (USP) and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition...

Senegal becomes VAN’s newest Premium member

This month Senegal joined seven of its West African neighbors in becoming a VAN Premium member. Government officials and implementing partners gathered in Thies, Senegal, to learn how to use the VAN, and to see how the platform...

Category: Global FP VAN