News
New 2023 scorecard and infographic speak to spectacular VAN impact
21st March 2024Between 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
18th March 2024ForoLAC 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
13th March 2024A 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
27th February 2024This 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
Research on joint supply planning in West Africa available online
26th February 2024Last year, as part of the Compass Initiative, the RHSC launched a project with Chemonics International to identify challenges to, and opportunities for, joint supply planning in West Africa, with a view to join regional...