PFSCM Poste

2025 | Issue 17

Making every resource count in the changing global health landscape

As we cross the midpoint of 2025, we find ourselves operating in a drastically altered global health and development landscape. 


As the landscape continues to evolve in response to shifts in funding priorities and dynamics, the resilience of health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is being tested. 

In this environment, it is more important than ever that we focus on resilient, efficient, and coordinated approaches to ensure continued access to essential health products.


We recognize that many of our clients and partners are being asked to deliver the same—if not more—health impact with fewer resources. 


This moment calls for strategic adaptation: working smarter within constrained budgets while maintaining the quality, reliability, and equity of access to health products and technologies.


We are responding by deepening our support for our clients in several key areas:


  • Streamlining procurement and catalog management processes for both buyers and sellers to help reduce the administrative burdens that have now fallen on their shoulders.
  • Using market assessments to help governments and implementers identify sustainable, long-term sourcing and procurement strategies that are coordinated and cost-effective.
  • Engaging with suppliers and manufacturers to shape more responsive and sustainable markets for priority health products.


Further, we are also strengthening our collaboration with local health programs and ministries to help them navigate complex health product markets in order to build national procurement capacity while preventing fragmentation that can divert limited time and funding.


Meanwhile, in the last six months, despite the flux in our sector, we stayed true to our mission of improving access to health products in LMICS and will continue to deliver value to our clients. 


Since January 2025, we have delivered more than 1,000 shipments of health products worth more than $145 million to 62 countries. 


We also delivered our first shipments of critical products for two new clients.


The first project involves millions of bottles of antibiotics to prevent blindness and mortality in children in Nigeria. Procurement and freight savings have already exceeded $300,000 for this project, with more to come. The second project involves delivering incubators, sample collection kits, and bacterial cultures used in antimicrobial resistance surveillance to select African countries. 


We are proud of what we have accomplished in 2025 so far, and later this year, when celebrating our 20th anniversary, we will look back at even more achievements in supply chain excellence. 


For now, we continue to be agile, collaborative, and strategic. In doing so, we enable our partners to access products at globally competitive prices and avoid unnecessary transaction costs—ultimately freeing up resources for frontline delivery and patient care.


If your program needs support in health product supply continuity,  please get in touch with us.


Let’s continue to focus on making a positive impact on health for those who need it most.


Erin Seidner

PFSCM, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer

NEWS

First shipment of lifesaving antibiotics delivered to Nigeria in support of the REACH initiative


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Navigating complex logistics to deliver medical imaging equipment to hospitals in Sri Lanka


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Custom transport planning to deliver millions of malaria test kits to Uganda


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Navigating sudden warehouse closures in the Dominican Republic


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BLOG

Systematically addressing complexities that drive delay-based charges in public health supply chains

Learn how PFSCM has reduced delay-based charges (storage, detention, and demurrage fees) by leveraging technology, expert staff, and partnership collaboration to systematically address issues commonly contributing to extra charges.


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NEW ON OUR WEBSITE

Supply chain services for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH)

Reliable and efficient supply chains are critical to ensuring MNCH products reach those who need them most. At PFSCM, we offer a wide range of quality-assured products, and our sourcing, category management, procurement, and logistics services help support affordable access to health products that protect women, newborns, and children. Visit our new webpage to learn about our products, services, and experience in MNCH.


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GLOBAL COMMUNITY

In Q2, PFSCM stayed connected to the global health community and kept learning, sharing our expertise, and aligning with partners in the public health and diagnostics sectors.


  • In May, PFSCM attended Breakbulk in Rotterdam and side events at the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly held in Geneva.
  • In June, PFSCM participated in the newly launched Global AMR Diagnostics Consortium’s first gathering in Ghana, the 5th World Health Organization Global Forum on Medical Devices virtually, and the Africa Health ExCon conference in Egypt.


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Elena Feldsherova, PFSCM Logistics Manager and Ishmael Muchemenyi PFSCM 4PL Services Director.

 Dr. Timothy Meehan, PFSCM Senior Laboratory Technical Advisor, and Royce Gomo, PFSCM Product Technical Manager.

Nqobile Ndlovu Chief Executive Officer at African Society for Laboratory Medicine and Rujeko Tsomondo, PFSCM Senior Sourcing & Category Specialist.

PFSCM at the Africa Health Business Symposium

We will have a delegation at the Africa Health Business Symposium in Abuja, Nigeria, next week, July 16 and 17.


Please contact us if you would like to meet with our product technical, supply chain, and new business development professionals. 


Email is now on: pfscm@pfscm.org

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Career Opportunities at PFSCM

Do you want to improve the lives of communities and contribute to the betterment of the world?


Become part of a team dedicated to improving the health and well-being of people in low and middle-income countries through increased access to quality and affordable health products.


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ABOUT PFSCM

PFSCM is a nonprofit procurement agent and 4PL services provider serving donors and governments. We specialize in health products for AMR, HIV, malaria, MNCH, mpox, TB and more.

More than 90% of our volumes are destined for Africa. 

+31 850 167 000 | pfscm@pfscm.org | www.pfscm.org

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