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Diversion/rant: T-shirts, child trafficking, and how to lose friends & alienate people – Logistics for global health and aid - A Humourless Lot
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Logistics for global health and aid. Aid and aid work. Diversion/rant: T-shirts, child trafficking, and how to lose friends & alienate people. Diversion/rant: T-shirts, child trafficking, and how to lose friends & alienate people. May 27, 2010. The 1 million T-shirts saga goes on. Go and read. And cry. Which was written well before the T-shirts ever came up). What I do want to draw attention to is that, evidently, Jason still has not learnt that it might be a good idea to stop and think before jumpin...
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Do you know what you export? – Logistics for global health and aid - A Humourless Lot
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Logistics for global health and aid. Aid and aid work. Do you know what you export? Do you know what you export? March 12, 2009. I must admit that I am guilty: I have brought my Dell. Computer into Sudan — and out again, I am happy to say. But in doing so, I was in technical violation of various US export regulations. Over at Aid Worker Daily. Jon Thompson warned us about this already some time ago. So this was a particularly pointless exercise). You might say: what does that have to do with me? And don&...
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The ways and means that divide: parallel supply lines for medical supplies – Logistics for global health and aid - A Humourless Lot
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Logistics for global health and aid. Aid and aid work. The ways and means that divide: parallel supply lines for medical supplies. The ways and means that divide: parallel supply lines for medical supplies. June 17, 2010. Kathleen McDonald asks for my views on INGOs who set up their own (parallel) supply lines for medical supplies. As opposed to using the country’s normal supply lines. Reasons to set up a parallel supply chain. Some of the reasons that INGOs give for setting up a parallel supply chain:.
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Struggle with the knot: push and pull systems – Logistics for global health and aid - A Humourless Lot
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Logistics for global health and aid. Aid and aid work. Struggle with the knot: push and pull systems. Struggle with the knot: push and pull systems. May 26, 2010. Ordering systems come in two basic flavours: push and pull, plus any number of hybrid systems. All have pros and cons, and each is most appropriate for a specific situation. In this first article in a miniseries on push and pull systems, I will discuss the basics: what exactly are pull and push systems and when would you use either. As the lowe...
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Humourless Links for June 13, 2010 – Logistics for global health and aid - A Humourless Lot
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Logistics for global health and aid. Aid and aid work. Humourless Links for June 13, 2010. Humourless Links for June 13, 2010. June 13, 2010. Remember my post on how to get patients and health care together. It turns out that I had forgotten one major factor: legal bickering. At least, in Australia. Yet another idea to combat counterfeit medicine. Not a bad one as things go, but again missing the poorest. Not that I would know how to do better. Section 8 can lead to some interesting issues. Notify me of ...
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Tell me what you want, what you really really want – Logistics for global health and aid - A Humourless Lot
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Logistics for global health and aid. Tell me what you want, what you really really want. Tell me what you want, what you really really want. June 9, 2010. Ì have been posting for a while now, and I think it’s time that I start to listen instead of blathering on. So, here are some questions for you, my readers. Should I expand the series on push versus pull supply lines? Almost all my points have already been pre-empted by Dennis Bours’ comments. Plus one on Google. Buzz it up on Yahoo. 8220;I want demo v...
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Latest job opportunities (June 11, 2010) – Logistics for global health and aid - A Humourless Lot
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Logistics for global health and aid. Aid and aid work. Latest job opportunities (June 11, 2010). Latest job opportunities (June 11, 2010). June 11, 2010. Crown Agents are looking for senior procurement specialists for their office in Arlington VA (USA). Procurement specialists for Mongolia. An ARV logistics officer. For Botswana; a procurement consultant. For Tanzania; a supply chain operations manager. For Malawi; an SCMS deputy country director. For Rwanda; a logistics assistant. For Katanga (Congo DRC).
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Logistics for global health and aid. You read on this blog needs to be verified and checked and double-checked. And then judge what I write on its arguments, not on who it’s coming from. Plus one on Google. Buzz it up on Yahoo. Subscribe to the comments on this post. Comments… add one now. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Authenticate this comment using OpenID. Notify me of new posts by email. Low-bandwidth version, courtesy of loband.org. The best and brightest. The Lancet on the aid industry.
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Logistics, health and aid: Patients patiently waiting for the bus, or: how to get health care and patients together - A Humourless Lot
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Logistics for global health and aid. How to get health care and patients together. How to get health care and patients together. April 14, 2009. As I have written before, health logistics as a discipline tends to ignore the impact of the logistics of daily life. On health. Possibly the clearest example is how physical access to primary health care impacts on health. What do you do when you are seriously sick? Another way to deal with these issues is by decreasing the distance between patient and health c...