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Our Mission

The LHSS Project helps countries achieve sustainable, self-financed health systems that offer quality health care for all. LEARN MORE ❯❯❯

Learn more about poster presentations from members of the LHSS Vietnam team.

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The Health Systems Podcast

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USAID Health Systems Strengthening Spotlight Series

The Health Systems Strengthening Practice Spotlight briefs discuss specific health systems strengthening approaches and how they were successfully applied in USAID-supported or other HSS program settings.

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Health Systems Strengthening Practice Spotlight: Digital Social and Behavior Change in Health Systems Strengthening
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Health Systems Strengthening Practice Spotlight: Contribution Analysis
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Health Systems Strengthening Practice Spotlight: Outcome Harvesting

This Practice Spotlight brief describes outcome harvesting, a monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning approach that can help tease out the specific impacts of HSS interventions conducted in complex environments, where many factors may influence an outcome.
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Health Systems Strengthening Practice Spotlight: Ethiopia’s Information Revolution

This Practice Spotlight brief describes the Ethiopia Ministry of Health’s Information Revolution, an initiative that aimed to improve health services by facilitating better availability, quality, and use of health data across the health system.

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FEATURE THIS MONTH: Health Financing

LHSS is exploring evidence, identifying promising practices, and testing approaches to learn what works, what doesn’t, and in what contexts. The knowledge we share will provide workable solutions for national governments -- and advance the field of health systems strengthening globally.

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Executive Summary: Methodology and Analysis of the Financial Needs of Territorial Entities to Address the Migratory Phenomenon

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National Quality Policy and Strategy (NQPS): Financing for Quality

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Transition Roadmap for Integrating TB Services into Social Health Insurance and Sustainable Financing for TB (2020–2025)

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Advancing universal health coverage in the COVID-19 era: an assessment of public health services technical efficiency and applied cost allocation in Cambodia

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Articles, Blogs, and Stories

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LHSS Attends 24th International AIDS Conference, Presents Four Posters

LHSS features four poster presentations at 24th International AIDS Conference.
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Five Lessons for Ministries of Health Seeking to Improve Health Budget Execution

How can countries make progress towards good health budget execution? In this latest blog in our budget execution series, ministry of health practitioners from eight countries offer lessons based on their own experiences and shared learning.
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Launch Event Celebrates TB Drugs Now Made Available Through Social Health Insurance in Vietnam

Vietnam is one of the 30 countries with the highest burden of TB and drug-resistant TB in the world, with more than 172,000 cases and 10,400 deaths from TB in Vietnam in 2020 (WHO). On July 1, TB treatment facilities nationwide started providing TB drugs to patients through social health insurance, marking an important milestone for financial sustainability.
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Partnering With Faith-Based Organizations to Combat COVID-19 in Jamaica

Since vaccines became available in 2021, only 26 percent of Jamaicans have been vaccinated – a far cry from the country’s goal of 65 percent by March 2022. Religious communities were among the victims of the misinformation causing vaccine hesitancy, with many of the country’s Christians believing the vaccines represented “the mark of the beast.” In response, the government called on church leaders to play a more prominent role in the country’s vaccination effort.
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Join a Learning Exchange on Human Resources for Health (HRH) Resource Optimization

The learning exchange is hosted by LHSS in partnership with the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage (JLN). This offering is open to JLN and non-JLN countries. Applications are due July 15, 2022.
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What’s Getting in the Way of Fairer National Priority Setting for Universal Health Coverage?

Through an LHSS-Joint Learning Network learning exchange, health practitioners from seven countries are sharing successful experiences and promising practices to institutionalize explicit national priority-setting processes for health. The goal? To help countries set equitable national health priorities and ensure that these priorities are reflected in national health plans and budgets.
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Ghana and Bangladesh Share Promising Practices for Health Budget Execution

Both Ghana and Bangladesh have implemented health budget accountability mechanisms. Their experiences offer practical lessons that other countries can adapt to their own budget execution needs.
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Sustainable Financing for Migrant Health: Learning from Colombia

Colombia has emerged as a leader in creating policies to integrate migrants into the economy and society, guaranteeing their right to health and mobilizing domestic resources to meet the increased demand for health services.
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USAID Health System Sustainability Activity and HAMNASA Join Hands to Further Boost Timor-Leste’s COVID-19 Response

The ‘COVID19 SAFE’ project opened with the launch of COVID-19 vaccination to school-age children (12–17 years old) in the Bobonaro municipality. The USAID Activity, working through HAMNASA, supported the Ministry of Health and Municipality Health Services in conducting community mobilization and disseminating COVID-19 information to the Memo village community, including to teachers and parents of school-age children.
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USAID Project to Provide Avenue for Healthcare Professional Development

AMMAN — USAID’s Local Health System Sustainability (LHSS) project, which began 2019 and will run until 2023, will improve the capacity of healthcare providers to deliver quality health services by establishing a mandatory “Continuing Professional Development System” for health professional licence renewal.
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USAID and Civil Society Launch Timor-Leste's First CSO Health Network

U.S. Charge d’ Affaires Tom Daley and USAID Mission Director Zema Semunegus join the representative from local nongovernmental organizations and the Ministry of Health to launch the Heath Advocacy Network of Timor-Leste (REBAS- TL).
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USAID Provides Additional Medical Equipment for Kyrgyz Republic’s COVID-19 Response

This assistance is provided under USAID’s Local Health System Sustainability program. Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, USAID has provided more than $7 million USD to help the Kyrgyz Republic fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Refurbishing the Only COVID-19-Specific Genomic Sequencing Machine in Tajikistan

Accurate and timely identification of COVID-19 variants in circulation is critical to an effective COVID-19 response. Following the delivery of parts and equipment to refurbish the country’s only COVID-19 specific genomic sequencing machine, LHSS supported training for laboratory specialists on genomic sequencing of COVID-19 virus variants.
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Lessons from Three Countries That Have Strengthened Budget Structures and Processes to Improve Health Budget Execution

What do Lao PDR, Malaysia, and Kenya have in common? All three countries have strengthened their budget structures and processes to enable good health budget execution. Their experiences hold valuable lessons for others striving to increase budget execution and unlock significant resources for health.
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Vietnam Transitions to Sustainable Financing for TB Drugs

For the first time, Vietnam has procured TB medicines using its national social health insurance scheme.
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Assessment of COVID-19 Molecular Testing Capacity in Jordan: A Cross-Sectional Study at the Country Level

Qaqish B, Sallam M, Al-Khateeb M, Reisdorf E, Mahafzah A. Assessment of COVID-19 Molecular Testing Capacity in Jordan: A Cross-Sectional Study at the Country Level. Diagnostics. 2022; 12(4):909. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12040909
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Promising Practices That Are Helping Ministries of Health Improve Their Health Budget Execution

Late last year, health sector practitioners from eight countries met to tackle the issue head-on as participants in the Joint Learning Network Health Budget Execution Learning Exchange. They made meaningful progress.
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Regional COVID-19 Communications Strategy Kicks Off in Peru

Officials from the health and education sectors of Arequipa, Madre de Dios, Moquegua, Puno and Tacna regions of Peru begin discussions for implementing a regional COVID-19 communications strategy.
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Opening the Door to Health Care for a Two-Year-Old Venezuelan Migrant

Meet Jessica. Her little girl is one of more than 40,000 migrants who have been enrolled in Colombia’s national health insurance system with support from the LHSS Project.
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Supporting High-Quality Midwifery Services in Timor-Leste

In December 2021, more than 180 midwives from across Timor-Leste participated in an Activity-led event to identify areas for improvement in a set of draft standards.