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LHSS grants help nontraditional partners play a larger role in strengthening Peru’s health system.
Two years ago, as it struggled to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus and get people vaccinated, the Government of Jamaica turned to private health care providers for help. The results went well beyond its expectations.
Health personnel and teachers team up to increase COVID-19 vaccination coverage among families and children through a campaign to counter myths inhibiting community uptake.
Returning funds to the Ministry of Finance at the end of the fiscal year is the last thing any Ministry of Health wants to do. In Peru, health budget officials are rolling out a strategy to stop that from happening.
This document outlines recommendations for the design and implementation of the National Migrant Health Observatory. The recommendations seek to facilitate greater coordination and exchange of information among the public, international cooperation and civil society actors or stakeholders that articulate the response to Venezuelan migration in the country.
Proper specimen collection and transport play an important role in the accurate and timely identification of newly emerging infectious diseases. This report provides recommendations for improving the specimen collection and transport system in Peru.
With a grant from LHSS, the Jamaican health care firm Online Medics is supporting the government’s COVID-19 vaccination effort while gaining valuable new business capacities. “LHSS allowed me to think in the long term – where I wanted my company to go and what I need to do to get it there,” says owner Alex Tracey.
La Estrategia de Comunicación para el Cambio de Comportamiento frente al COVID-19 (ECCC COVID-19) es un esfuerzo intergubernamental de los gobiernos regionales de Arequipa, Madre de Dios, Moquegua, Puno y Tacna, a iniciativa de sus autoridades sanitarias regionales, para fortalecer su estrategia de salud pública y lograr sus objetivos sanitarios frente a la pandemia por SARS-CoV-2.
This resource provides recommendations aimed at strengthening the Ministry of Health’s functional capabilities and operational capacities to generate and use information for effective deployment of COVID-19 vaccinations.
This resource provides recommendations aimed at strengthening the Ministry of Health’s functional capabilities and operational capacities to generate and use information for effective deployment of COVID-19 vaccinations.
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.
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.
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.