English short summary of the Spanish-language report on trends and misconceptions about COVID-19 vaccination among national and local media in Colombia. 

A short summary, in Spanish, of the full-length report on trends and misconceptions about COVID-19 vaccination among national and local media in Colombia.

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.

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.  

This fact sheet provides a summary of activity progress in Central Asia as well as results and impact.

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.

This Spanish-language document describes findings regarding trends in information and misconceptions regarding COVID-19 vaccination in Colombia and the development of a communications strategy to promote vaccination in prioritized regions focused on increasing community trust in the vaccination process.

This Spanish-language document describes a tool to enable the Colombia Ministry of Health and Social Protection and health secretariats to monitor COVID-19 vaccination and assess vaccination strategies with a focus on rural areas and vulnerable populations.

This Spanish-language document 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 information about vaccination using approaches tailored to their communities.

The ‘COVID19 SAFE’ project opened with the launch of COVID-19 vaccination to school-age children (12–17 years old) in the Bobonaro municipality. The USAID Activity, working through HAMNASA, supported the Ministry of Health and Municipality Health Services in conducting community mobilization and disseminating COVID-19 information to the Memo village community, including to teachers and parents of school-age children.

AMMAN — USAID’s Local Health System Sustainability (LHSS) project, which began 2019 and will run until 2023, will improve the capacity of healthcare providers to deliver quality health services by establishing a mandatory “Continuing Professional Development System” for health professional licence renewal.

LHSS Kyrgyz Team presents findings from August 2021 assessment of Kyrgyz Republic's state-run Laboratory for Virologic and Molecular Genetic Studies.

This report describes the multidisciplinary team approach, and presents guidelines for establishing, training, and monitoring and evaluating multidisciplinary teams.