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Vietnam is one of the 30 countries with the highest burden of TB and drug-resistant TB in the world, with more than 172,000 cases and 10,400 deaths from TB in Vietnam in 2020 (WHO). On July 1, TB treatment facilities nationwide started providing TB drugs to patients through social health insurance, marking an important milestone for financial sustainability.
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.
This rapid assessment aimed to determine which health facilities in seven high-TB burden provinces of Vietnam meet social health insurance (SHI) requirements for TB service provision and for reimbursement of TB services through the SHI scheme.
Colombia has emerged as a leader in creating policies to integrate migrants into the economy and society, guaranteeing their right to health and mobilizing domestic resources to meet the increased demand for health services.
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 prepared this report, discussing procurement and payment considerations related to the transition of first-line tuberculosis (TB) drug procurement in Vietnam from the central state budget to the social health insurance fund starting in 2022.
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.
This Spanish-language report describes an LHSS analysis of the financial needs of selected territorial entities in Colombia to cover the health care costs of Venezuelan migrants.
Through a grant, LHSS support a COVID-19 surveillance program that allows health professionals to remotely monitor physiological variables and identify critical cases in Colombia.
This Spanish-language report discusses communication strategies to increase enrollment of Venezuelan migrants in La Guajira and Cundinamarca into Colombia’s national health insurance program.
An executive summary, in Spanish, of an LHSS analysis of the financial needs of selected territorial entities in Colombia to cover the health care costs of Venezuelan migrants.