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Management Sciences for Health Joins More than 60 Partners to Praise the US’s Renewed Commitment to Global Health Security and Advocate for Continued Funding

November 21, 2018
{Photo credit: Julius Kasujja}Photo credit: Julius Kasujja

In a letter submitted to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar on November 20, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and more than 60 partner organizations and industry experts expressed appreciation for the US’s renewed commitment to the goals and activities of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) through 2024. The letter advocated for robust funding to support the Agenda’s efforts in the Administration’s FY2020 budget request to Congress and called for the timely release of the Administration’s Global Health Security Strategy.

Midwives tackle leading causes of maternal and newborn mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

October 30, 2018
{Photo credit: Rebecca Weaver/MSH}With the support of IHPplus, midwives are able to apply the helping babies breathe (HBB) approach to resuscitate newborns.Photo credit: Rebecca Weaver/MSH

“I became a nurse because my grandmother was a nurse, my sisters are nurses, and one of my aunts is a nurse,” says Neema Kitima, Head Midwife at Bahira Hospital in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). While 80% of births in DRC occur at health facilities with a trained assistant, maternal and neonatal mortality rates remain among the highest in the world. The most recent Demographic and Health Survey (2013–2014) showed that maternal deaths account for 35% of all deaths of women 15–49 years old.

MSH Subsidiary MedSource Launches in Kenya

October 15, 2018
{Photo credit: IMG Events & PR}Left to right: Marian Wentworth, MSH President and CEO; Cletus Otieno, Habemus Pharmacy; Lawrence Fish, MSH Board Chairman; Chief Pharmacist and Registrar of the Pharmacy and Poisons Board, Dr. Fred Siyoi; MSH Vice President, Pharmaceuticals and Health Technologies Group, Dr. Douglas Keene; and MedSource CEO Dr. Peter Kamunyo.Photo credit: IMG Events & PR

On October 11, 2018, MSH’s fully owned subsidiary MedSource, a pharmaceutical group purchasing organization, held its launch event in Nairobi. The first organization of its kind in Kenya, MedSource is dedicated to improving the availability and affordability of quality medicines and related supplies. Membership is open to pharmacies of all sizes, hospitals and hospital groups, institutions and in-house clinics, dispensaries, clinical laboratories, and health networks. MedSource CEO Dr. Peter Kamunyo. Photo credit: IMG Events and PR

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