Stories



Donors almost made health supply chains much worse.

Vertical programs might ensure that the health commodities you care about get through to end users, but what if the funding goes away?

(Published on Jan 23, 2026)

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End to end supply chain management with DHIS2 & mSupply: 10-14 November in Kigali!

LMIS Training Academy: 10-14 November in Kigali!

(Published on Sep 29, 2025)

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The Elixir of Life for Open Source Projects

Drink this elixir and your open source project will live for ever (cough).

(Published on Jul 12, 2025)

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Why we're focusing on Africa

In short, because the burden of global poverty is now concentrated in 10 countries in Africa.

(image credit: Brookings )

(Published on Jun 03, 2025)

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A small Economics Geek-Out

This post is the third in our series on effective Digital Health Systems. Find out how Open mSupply is like a lighthouse, and other things you didn’t know you wanted to know!
(Thanks XKCD for the image)

(Published on Jun 02, 2025)

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Great story about mSupply report cards

BES just wrote up a fantastic post on using mSupply’s report cards to improve health supply chain performance. We won’t repeat what they’ve said so well. You can read it here

(Published on May 29, 2025)

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Outing Net Outcomes

So many squares, so little meaning? Hopefully not. This post is a discussion of the tools we can use to work out which Digital Logistics Management system will best contribute to effectiveness in your health system.

(Published on Mar 19, 2025)

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Effectiveness (or Oops! We failed again)

As an organisation we’re refocusing our work on effectiveness.

We’re asking some hard questions about digital health interventions, what effectiveness means, and what’s need to actually make a (cost-effective) difference in the places we serve.

(Published on Feb 12, 2025)

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Welcoming the Timor-Leste Team for mSupply Training

We had the pleasure of welcoming our lovely friends mana Leticia Varela Niha, maun Estaquio Maia dos Reis, and mana Bernardete Freitas Barros all the way from the National Institute of Pharmacy and Medical Products (INFPM) in Timor-Leste! 🇹🇱

(Published on Dec 17, 2024)

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Medicine Regulation is Flying in Fiji with Conforma

The Fiji Medicines Regulatory Authority (Fiji MRA) has just surpassed the milestone of provisionally approving 5,000 medicines for use in-country.

(Published on Mar 27, 2024)

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Open mSupply embarks on an expansion in Djibouti!

In March 2024 we had the pleasure of returning to Djibouti, some nine months after the end of the pilot phase deployments. This was an opportunity to reflect on the positive and negative aspects of the first phase, with a mind to scaling Open mSupply nationwide for all health commodities, including vaccines.

(Published on Mar 15, 2024)

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Conforma - The mSupply Foundation’s new open-source IRIMS has an interactive demo available

Conforma is being successfully used in Fiji, and with other projects in the pipeline, we are excited about the potential for one of our latest open-source software to support lower- and middle-income countries with their regulatory and workflow management.

(Published on Dec 15, 2023)

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The mSupply Foundation Makes Waves in the Cook Islands

Join us as we recount the exciting progress made in the Cook Islands with mSupply last month! The team at mSupply have been busy implementing new features and enhancing warehouse usability in Rarotonga.

(Published on Aug 25, 2023)

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Recognising the skills of mSupply users worldwide: Introducing the mSupply International Accreditation System

DTAC has officially launched the mSupply International Accreditation System, a multi-level online course for mastering the skills of mSupply…

(Published on Sep 22, 2021)

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mSupply ColdChain achieves World Health Organisation Prequalification

On 8 February 2021, mSupply ColdChain was prequalified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a Temperature Monitoring Device. WHO prequalification assures users that mSupply ColdChain is suitable for use in immunization programmes.

(Published on Feb 17, 2021)

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Introducing DTAC: Strengthening Health Supply Chains in the Indo-Pacific Region

The mSupply Foundation (TMF) is excited to announce the launch of the Indo-Pacific Health & Supply Chain Data & Technical Assistance Centre…

(Published on Jun 16, 2020)

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Exciting news...

We’re excited to announce that the mSupply Foundation has now signed a 5-year funding agreement with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to further support and work closely with PICs…

(Published on Jun 16, 2020)

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mSupply is now available in Spanish

mSupply ahora está disponible en español

(Published on Jan 10, 2020)

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Cambodia: Tuk Tuks, Rice Fields and an Unexpected Visitor

The mSupply team gets an unexpected visitor during a visit to Svay Chochep health centre in Kampong Speu province, Cambodia.

(Published on Nov 05, 2019)

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"The pilot was a success"!

The 3MDG Fund in Myanmar has publicly released the evaluation report on the use of mSupply for the collection of data from over 700 facilities.

(Published on Aug 17, 2018)

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The Cook Islands Story

In March 2018, Desktop mSupply was installed at Rarotonga Hospital and Aitutaki with mSupply mobile being rolled out to several other islands.  Tupaia, the health facility mapping app, was installed alongside, offering a comprehensive solution for pharmaceutical logistics to the region.

(Published on May 08, 2018)

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Why we're excited about the Cook Islands...

The Cook Islands are a beautiful part of the world.  It’s a popular tourist destination for very good reasons. Lonely Planet describes it as “Fifteen droplets of land cast across 2 million sq km of wild Pacific blue, the Cook Islands are simultaneously remote and accessible, modern and traditional.”

When the mSupply team visited in March, however, it wasn’t as tourists.

(Published on Mar 14, 2018)

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mSupply Australia Awards Training in Papua New Guinea

Sustainable Solutions was pleased to be involved in mSupply Training for Australia Awards Papua New Guinea.

(Published on Jun 16, 2017)

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mSupply in Afghanistan. Again!

Afghanistan, 2016. An important need to improve the availability of supply chain information, the management of pharmaceuticals and streamline the reporting process at the regional level was identified so mSupply was called upon again. We modified mSupply to automatically produce reports that previously took hours of painstaking work to produce and made a visit to Kabul in July 2016.

(Published on Sep 10, 2016)

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mSupply in Myanmar

mSupply has been used for Malaria and ARV medicine distribution in Myanmar since 2014. Now 70 sites spanning the Malaria, TB & leprosy, ARV and essential medicine programmes are linked to a central cloud server using mSupply’s sync system that synchronises data when an internet connection is available

(Published on Feb 02, 2016)

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mSupply in Nigeria

Nigeria is big! It’s the most populous country in Africa and the 7th most populous country in the world.
mSupply has been used in Nigeria since 2005, starting with six sites in Ekiti state.
Today mSupply use at more than 15 sites in Nigeria, with a large expansion (20 new sites) in process in 2016…

(Published on Nov 23, 2015)

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