Integrating Migrants into Health Systems
LHSS is working alongside local partners to analyze system bottlenecks, co-develop clear strategies and durable policies for delivering comprehensive, high-quality health services for migrants and host populations; and ensure adequate resources to sustain health services amid rapidly evolving, complex contexts.
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SUCCESS STORY
An LHSS grantee in Colombia helps Venezuelan migrants understand how to obtain health services -- while gaining valuable knowledge and skills to strengthen its own organizational capacity.
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BLOG
Population movement of this magnitude places huge stress on health systems in receptor countries. How can health care for migrants be financed? How can health system capacity be expanded? And how can health sector policies and national migration policies be harmonized?
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BLOG
In the Dominican Republic, the dual impact of large numbers of migrants and a health system overwhelmed by COVID-19 has meant that fewer health services are available for migrant women. LHSS is working to improve health protection for the country’s migrant women, most of whom come from Haiti.
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SUCCESS STORY
The pandemic has presented an urgent challenge to Colombia’s already overburdened, understaffed health system. Rapid response teams are traversing roads, mountain paths, and rivers to help health officials contain the spread of COVID-19.
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SUCCESS STORY
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.
Knowledge Products
Key stakeholders in Barranquilla, Colombia provide valuable insights on the importance of quality health care for migrants and their families.
This report provides a summary of the results of the quantification of demand for HIV commodities for the Venezuelan migrant population in Peru. It includes the capabilities and limitations of the quantification model, its approach to quantification, and the sources used.
This report aims to delve deeper into comprehending the functioning of the social protection system and the interventions carried out by civil society, particularly concerning the Venezuelan LGBTQI+ migrant and refugee population in Peru. Additionally, it strives to uncover the obstacles that hinder their access to crucial services.
This video shares the testimonials and progress made on the collaborative work achieved between territorial entities and community-based organizations as a result of the capacity-building process carried out by the Healthy Communities program to promote the inclusion of the migrant population in Colombia's general social security system in health.
LHSS activity in the Dominican Republic during its first year of implementation and detailed steps to pilot initiatives that aim to improve SHP for migrants (including women) in the Dominican Republic
This report is a health system assessment focused on HIV care services for Venezuelan migrants living in Peru. The assessment reviews secondary data sources; interviews with key informants, users, and professionals who are responsible for health facilities providing Antiretroviral Therapy (HF ART); observes visits to selected HF ART; and provides an overview of a self-administered survey to those responsible for HF ART in the country.
Infographic describes approaches to strengthening Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Colombia.
This Spanish-language report discusses communication strategies to increase enrollment of Venezuelan migrants in La Guajira and Cundinamarca into Colombia’s national health insurance program.