Accredited Medicine Stores in Liberia: Helping Fight Ebola: Blog Posts

The Accredited Medicine Stores in Liberia: Their Role in the Ebola Crisis

January 12, 2016
[An Accredited Medicines Stores (AMS) seller receives an infrared thermometer to use in Ebola and other outbreak surveillance.]

by Arthur Loryoun

Reformed Drug Shops Can Widen Access to Healthcare

June 17, 2015
[A woman and child visit an accredited dispenser in Tanzania.] {Photo credit: MSH staff}

There are ways to make informal outlets fit for quality care in poor areas, say Jafary Hassan Liana and Martha Embrey.

Improving Primary Care for the Poor by Leveraging Drug Sellers at Scale: Tanzania’s Accredited Drug Dispensing Outlets Program

December 02, 2014
[A woman and her child consult with an ADDO dispenser in Tanzania.] {Photo credit: MSH}

Cross-posted with permission from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Blog, Impatient Optimists. Primary health care has many different definitions, but can be defined simply as the first place where people seek care. Within this definition, private sector providers constitute an important source of primary health care in many parts of the world. Private providers of primary health

Why I Went to Liberia

November 12, 2014
[Dr. Logan and two women Ebola survivors at Annex 3.] {Photo credit: Fred Hartman/MSH}

Tuesday, November 4, was my first day back at MSH headquarters since returning from Liberia nearly three weeks ago on October 21. I volunteered to go to Liberia—one of three West African countries at the center of the Ebola outbreak—because MSH has a wealth of experience to offer to help resolve one of the great public health challenges of our time. 

Fighting Malaria in Liberia in the Face of Ebola

October 30, 2014
[Meeting community volunteers to update them on malaria case management measures during the Ebola crisis.] {Photo credit: Anthony Yeakpalah/MSH.}

The unprecedented outbreak and spread of the Ebola virus in three West African countries (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) continues to wreak havoc on the lives, economy, and already-strained health systems of the region. The outbreak is particularly high in Liberia with 2,413 people killed by the disease to date.

Free, Online Seminar on West African Ebola Outbreak Preparedness and Response

October 24, 2014
[Ebola outbreak response: Regional confirmed and probable cases, 20 October 2014. <a href="http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/maps/en/">World Health Organization (WHO) map</a>]

Are you interested in preparedness and response to an Ebola outbreak? Join us for a three-day interactive, web-based seminar on the West African Ebola outbreak from October 28-30, 2014.  Hosted by Management Sciences for Health, the LeaderNet seminar on Ebola will provide a broad overview of the current West African Ebola outbreak, identify trends and specific interventions that are needed, and show specific MSH technical approaches that can help countries prepare for and respond to any Ebola outbreak.

Fighting Ebola: Dr. Quick in The New York Times

October 03, 2014
[MSH President & CEO Jonathan D. Quick says "investment in health systems, including epidemic preparedness, is the only way to ensure rapid containment of the next disease outbreak," in today's The New York Times.]

"Developing strong health systems will ensure the collective well-being for all over the long term," said MSH President & CEO Jonathan D. Quick in a Letter to the Editor, published October 3, 2014, in The New York Times. In the letter responding to Nicholas Kristof's Sept. 25 column, “The Ebola Fiasco”, Dr. Quick wrote: Nicholas Kristof rightly states that early action on Ebola could have saved lives and money. The early investment should have been in bolstering the health systems for the long term—not as a quick fix after Ebola had re-emerged. ...

Recap: Inside UN General Assembly and Clinton Global Initiative

October 01, 2014
[FROM LEFT: Joanne Manrique, Center for Global Health and Diplomacy; Sheila Tlou, UNAIDS (Eastern and Southern Africa), Former MOH Bostwana; Irene Kiwia, Tanzania Women of Achievement; Catharine Taylor, MSH; Kate Gilmore, UNFPA; Raymonde Goudou Coffie, MOH, Cote d'Ivoire; Language interpreter.] {Photo credit: Jon Jay/MSH.}

Experience the 69th UN General Assembly (UNGA) and Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting as we take you through some of the key events in photos, videos, and tweets. More than a dozen Management Sciences for Health (MSH) representatives led or participated in UNGA and CGI activities in New York City, New York, last week.