The Government of Jamaica and LHSS officially launch One Health approach in Kingston, focusing on intersectoral collaboration to address health threats across sectors.

With a small grant and technical support from LHSS, a Ugandan pharmacy and logistics company, MM Partners Logistics Ltd., expanded its e-Pharmacy platform to include more family planning products and increased the capacity of its dispensing staff to provide better counsel to clients on reproductive health and family planning. 

This brief highlights Timor-Leste's health progress over the last two decades. It provides an analysis of government expenditures and offers recommendations to improve PHC financing, budget execution, and service quality. The focus is on enhancing financial protection, increasing resource management efficiency, and ensuring sustainable investments in PHC to advance health outcomes and universal health coverage.

In Colombia and Peru, integrating migrants into national health systems is challenging due to inequalities in access and limited resources. This event aims to discuss the knowledge and expectations needed to effectively implement promising practices in different contexts, helping address these challenges and improve health equity for migrant populations.

The Jordan Medical Council, in collaboration with LHSS Jordan, celebrated the institutionalization of the Adult Critical Care Fellowship Program. 

LHSS Colombia and stakeholders held the "First District Forum for the Humanization of Health Services" in Cartegena. The forum united health experts from the academic and public sectors to share strategies and best practices for humanizing health services in Cartagena, a key commitment of the "Cartagena, City of Rights" Development Plan.

Creating a network with interoperable data management systems holds great potential to revolutionize Cambodia’s entire social safety-net ecosystem, providing improved efficiency for policymakers, implementing organizations, service providers, as well banks that subsidize services. 

With increased migration around the world posing unique challenges and opportunities for health systems, efforts to better integrate and include migrants and host communities in national health systems are an integral part of the global health equity agenda. 

This brief introduces implementation research as an effective means to addressing health equity challenges and offers country examples illustrating how the approach can enhance equity in the broader context of health system strengthening.

In this webinar, pedagogical strategies for community-based approaches were presented by LHSS Colombia and academia, covering the context of community mental health and community-based mental health strategies. Additionally, healthcare providers shared their experiences with community networks for promoting and caring for mental health, specifically in the context of Cartagena.

Join us as we discuss key questions regarding the integration of migrants into national health systems, considerations for migrants and host communities, and strategies for promoting health equity.

In the webinar, the appropriate use of antibiotics within the framework of global health was discussed, and a panel was held with the Ministry of Health, hospitals from Medellín, and Cucuta to explain the proper use of antibiotics

LHSS Colombia collaborates with Novartis to create an alliance focused on training health professionals to improve early detection of chronic diseases, ensure accurate diagnostics, provide up-to-date treatments, and offer comprehensive care and emotional support.

The Forum of CEOs of State Social Health Insurance Agencies in Nigeria, supported by LHSS, trained 14 newly appointed SSHIA CEOs from various states. Experienced CEOs and health experts shared insights on managing health insurance ecosystems, advancing Universal Health Coverage (UHC), leveraging ICT, and stakeholder management. The sessions, particularly beneficial for those without a health insurance background, aim to foster cross-learning and support Nigeria's goal of achieving UHC by 2030.

In Namibia, The Ministry of Health and Social Services conducted a comprehensive training session, with LHSS support, aimed at enhancing the capacity of its senior staff members. The focus of the training was social contracting, with particular emphasis on need identification and the intricate processes involved in contracting civil society organizations through social contracting mechanisms.