The Namibian government has a long history of working with the private sector to deliver essential health services. However, the engagement between the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) and private sector actors within the health sector is mostly through ad hoc interactions during national campaigns, planning processes and service delivery. Thus, there is a need for more-coordinated and more-strategic engagement to effectively leverage the private sector's capacity and strategically position the private sector’s role in advancing universal health coverage (UHC).

Given the complexity of the causes and effects of the SDoH and the multitude of stakeholders and interventions needed, this publication introduces the Theory of Change (ToC) that can help those seeking to develop interventions to address and mitigate the effect of the SDoH on health.

This analysis establishes a baseline understanding of current cross-border health challenges and opportunities, and identifies organizational and technical capacity gaps to address within key stakeholders that are leading cross-border health initiatives.

USAID LHSS Project and MTaPS program collaborated to draft and pilot a resource to help countries increase the accuracy of their pharmaceutical expenditure data. 

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.

LHSS conducted an assessment of Uzbekistan supply chain management system for COVID-19 and emergency commodities.

This brief highlights learnings from working with local government leaders of two city corporations and ten district-level municipalities from the Rajshahi and Sylhet divisions in Bangladesh.

In Bangladesh, LHSS has built relationships with ministries, departments, and development partners to support its objective of assisting urban primary health care delivery. This newsletter provides detailed information about the latest news, updates, and activities in Bangladesh.

LHSS tiene como objetivo fortalecer la capacidad del Ministerio de Salud para garantizar la disponibilidad de productos para el VIH (ARV y dispositivos médicos) para la población migrante venezolana en Perú. Como parte de este esfuerzo, LHSS estimó la demanda de productos relacionados con el VIH relacionados con esta población, incluidos detalles como el tipo, la cantidad y el momento. 

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 is a summary that 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 vaccination information in communities.

This is the English version of the Spanish-language LHSS document that 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 vaccination information in communities.

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.