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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for oxygen and other respiratory care supplies and equipment around the globe.In response, PATH conducted a biomedical equipment survey in eight government-owned health facilities in Zambia. The purpose of this survey was to quantify existing oxygen delivery and production equipment, consumables for administering oxygen therapy, bed capacity, and facility infrastructure characteristics that are relevant to providing respiratory care. The results indicated that all assessed institutions need urgent procurement of medical equipment for oxygen delivery, monitoring devices to support safe oxygen administration to patients, and accompanying consumables. Also, across all facilities there is insufficient staff trained to adequately manage COVID-19 patients requiring respiratory care.This report summarizes observations from the collected data and is intended to help global and national stakeholders understand COVID-19 treatment capacity in Zambia.

This document provides a historical overview and current status of technologies that support injection safety such as autodisable (AD) syringes, reuse prevention syringes (RUP), sharps injury prevention (SIP) syringes, disposable-syringe jet injectors, and compact prefilled autodisable (CPAD). It also documents the global progress over the past two decades that have led to a significant reduction in bloodborne pathogen transmission and the continued efforts needed to sustain the gains that have been made and to eliminate disease transmission from needlestick injuries and misuse of syringes.

This document provides a historical overview and current status of technologies that support injection safety such as autodisable (AD) syringes, reuse prevention syringes (RUP), sharps injury prevention (SIP) syringes, disposable-syringe jet injectors, and compact prefilled autodisable (CPAD). It also documents the global progress over the past two decades that have led to a significant reduction in bloodborne pathogen transmission and the continued efforts needed to sustain the gains that have been made and to eliminate disease transmission from needlestick injuries and misuse of syringes.

This supply systems and equipment fact sheet describes how PATH, in collaboration with the Solar Electric Light Fund and Sunny Day LLC, advanced energy harvest controls to help health facilities power small devices in areas with limited electricity. Energy harvest controls safely divert previously unused solar energy from solar direct drive refrigerators, used to keep vaccines cool, to devices such as lights and cell phones while prioritizing the safety of vaccines.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for oxygen and other respiratory care supplies and equipment around the globe.In response, PATH conducted a biomedical equipment survey in 93 health facilities in the city/province of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The purpose of this survey was to quantify existing oxygen delivery and production equipment, consumables for administering oxygen therapy, bed capacity, and facility infrastructure characteristics that are relevant to providing respiratory care. The results indicate that proliferation of critical care services, oxygen, and respiratory care equipment as well as oxygen supply systems are very limited in health care facilities in Kinshasa.This report summarizes observations from the collected data and is intended to help global and national stakeholders understand COVID-19 treatment capacity in Kinshasa, DRC.