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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.
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.
This is the first study to assess, with validated methodology and questionnaires, the perception that patients and health professionals have about the ease of use, usefulness, and general satisfaction of an application for the registration of healthcare information created by MINSA.
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.
In response to an emergency request from the Government of Laos, the Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS) is on the ground in Laos working with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to combat the spread of COVID-19.
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.
On Friday, February 25, LHSS Jamaica hosted a signing ceremony with the Jamaica Ministry of Health and Wellness and USAID to launch the Private Sector COVID-19 Vaccine Administration Partnership.
In the Dominican Republic, the dual impact of large numbers of migrants and a health system overwhelmed by COVID-19 has meant that fewer health services are available for migrant women. LHSS is working to improve health protection for the country’s migrant women, most of whom come from Haiti.