Advisory Update on Global Health Supply Chain-Procurement and Supply Management Project

Advisory

This advisory update follows up on our June 7, 2017, memorandum notifying your office of vulnerabilities in USAID's Global Health Supply Chain-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) Project that exposed it to criminal abuse, 1 as well as on subsequent communications between our offices. The vulnerabilities we identified related to commodity tracking, supply chain data access, reporting, commodity inventory access, labeling, and other issues. Seizures and sting operations conducted by our agents demonstrated how gaps and other weaknesses in these areas create opportunities for fraud and theft that feed the black market and put lives at risk.

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