This document offers a one-page summary, in English, of a full-length trainer's guide for training Kyrgyz health care providers on interpersonal communication related to COVID-19 vaccination. 

This communications strategy outlines how the LHSS team will support the private sector providers in implementing their communication plans.

The LHSS Jamaica Grants Strategy guides implementation of the grants-under-contract component of the LHSS Jamaica activity, with the goal of increasing the capacity of local organizations to prepare, obtain, and manage successful health systems strengthening projects and activities.  

This fact sheet provides a summary of activity progress in Central Asia as well as results and impact.

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. 

LHSS conducted this rapid assessment to better understand the current and potential role of the private health sector in Jamaica's COVID-19 response.

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.

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.

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.

This report presents findings from LHSS Vietnam's international review of diagnosis-related group contracts and provides a series of evaluations and recommendations.

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.

This Spanish-language document describes findings regarding trends in information and misconceptions regarding COVID-19 vaccination in Colombia and the development of a communications strategy to promote vaccination in prioritized regions focused on increasing community trust in the vaccination process.

This Spanish-language document describes a tool to enable the Colombia Ministry of Health and Social Protection and health secretariats to monitor COVID-19 vaccination and assess vaccination strategies with a focus on rural areas and vulnerable populations.

This Spanish-language document describes the training strategy implemented to increase health workers' and community leaders' knowledge about COVID-19 vaccine supply and demand in Colombia and promote dissemination of information about vaccination using approaches tailored to their communities.

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.