Learning and knowledge sharing are fundamental to the LHSS Project. We invite you to search LHSS knowledge products and resources for the latest approaches, insights, and learning in the field of integrated health systems strengthening.
![Namibia SOP Training teaser](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-03/Namibia_SOP%20Training_0.jpg?itok=RhaQLezB)
The Ministry of Health and Social Services gathered stakeholders at Midgard Country Estate to consult on standard operating procedures for social contracting. The goal: reach consensus on implementation plans and outline the path ahead, encompassing regional dissemination, pilot planning, and early implementation phases scheduled for later in the year.
![HSS Practice Spotlight Brief Integrating and Including Migrants in National Health Systems](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-03/HSS%20Practice%20Spotlight%20Brief%20Integrating%20and%20Including%20Migrants%20in%20National%20Health%20Systems.png?itok=lqe4tWrz)
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.
![TL News Story 3.4](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-03/GHkDFYraoAAfMPW.jpg?itok=a8XWBAEQ)
USAID | Timor-Leste and the Ministry of Health launched a groundbreaking initiative to bolster professional competence of health professionals to deliver and improve quality of health care services in Timor-Leste.
![Tajikistan news story 2.26](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/tajik%20news%20story%202.26.png?itok=BNYlNicA)
A medical waste shredder, procured with LHSS support, uses non-incineration technology and will protect Tajikistan’s environment.
![spotlight brief financial protection and SBC](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/spotlight%20brief%20financial%20protection%20and%20SBC_0.png?itok=QGbtGvtY)
This brief describes opportunities to improve financial protection programs using behavior change approaches. The Practice Spotlights Social and Behavior Change series supports USAID’s Vision for Health System Strengthening 2030 by exploring how social and behavior change approaches can contribute to countries’ health system strengthening efforts.
![Tajikistan community leaders help to improve community health](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/Tajikistan%20religious%20leaders%20community%20health%20news%20story.png?itok=wLK80FLi)
Religious leaders and community health workers collaborated to promote COVID-19 vaccination in two regions of Tajikistan.
![Namibia ESHP REVISION HIRES](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/Namibia_ESHP%20revision_hires_0.jpg?itok=nB4tdPyV)
Explore how the Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia, with support from the LHSS Project, is transforming health care access through the revised Essential Health Services Package.
![Kazakhstan Meeting 2.9](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/426252448_785353296964967_8140811615553209978_n.jpg?itok=7H250kjj)
With LHSS support, the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan hosted an Interagency Technical Working Group Coordination Meeting in Astana. Ministries of Health, Veterinary Services, Agriculture, and Ecology, alongside international organizations, discussed collaborative preparedness, human resource capacity for One Health, and joint disease investigation.
![Tajikistan news story](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/Tajikistan%20news%20story.jpg?itok=TgUmRspM)
With support from USAID’s LHSS Project, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MOHSPP) in Tajikistan strengthened Tajikistan’s national laboratory system and supported the country’s COVID-19 Country Preparedness and Response Plan.
![Core 27 HSS Spotlight brief SDOH](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-02/Core%2027%20HSS%20Spotlight%20brief%20SDOH.png?itok=3Fjxqfbl)
This brief introduces the social determinants of health (SDOH) concept and terminology, and discusses approaches to addressing SDOH. Understanding these root causes of health inequities and their impact on health care access, quality, and equity is crucial to strengthening health systems.
![Health System Strengthening Evidence Gap Map: Social and Behavior Change](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/Health%20System%20Strengthening%20Evidence%20Gap%20Map%20Social%20and%20Behavior%20Change.png?itok=bepccLJZ)
This two-pager focuses on USAID’s Learning Question 6, "What are key behavioral outcomes that indicate a functioning, integrated health system? In what ways can integrated health system strengthening approaches explicitly include social and behavior change?"
![Health System Strengthening Evidence Gap Map Integration and Engagement of Local Voices](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/Annotation%202024-01-26%20124126.png?itok=Lhx1iW7n)
This two-pager focuses on USAID’s Learning Question 4, “What are effective and sustainable mechanisms or processes to integrate local, community, sub-national, national, and regional voices, priorities, and contributions into USAID’s health system strengthening efforts?”
![vietnam news story HIV](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/IMG_7181.jpg?itok=zlGW-_JQ)
Clients at an HIV clinic in Vietnam are finally having their viral load tests reimbursed, thanks to some multisectoral problem-solving facilitated by LHSS.
![USAID SALUTIA news](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/usaid%20salutia.jpg?itok=6sv-ps7q)
To strengthen institutional capacities in the Mandatory Health Quality Assurance System of the Ministry of Health of Cúcuta, the Communidades Saludables of USAID and the Fundación Salutia delivered the Health Quality Management Model with its technological tool TGUÍA – IV.
![HSS Practice Spotlight Collborative learning](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-01/HSS%20Practice%20Spotlight%20Collaborative%20learning.png?itok=7SEUI5Ho)
This brief introduces collaborative learning as an effective approach to support sustainable health system strengthening. Collaborative learning brings together local leaders and experts to learn from one another, problem-solve, co-create new knowledge, and adapt and apply their learning.