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Publication

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.

Country/region: Colombia
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
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Fact Sheet

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

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Publication

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.

Country/region: Colombia
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
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Publication

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.

Country/region: Colombia
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
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Publication

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.

Country/region: Colombia
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
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Publication

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.

Country/region: Colombia
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News

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.

Country/region: Laos
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
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News

Accurate and timely identification of COVID-19 variants in circulation is critical to an effective COVID-19 response. Following the delivery of parts and equipment to refurbish the country’s only COVID-19 specific genomic sequencing machine, LHSS supported training for laboratory specialists on genomic sequencing of COVID-19 virus variants. 

Country/region: Tajikistan
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This short document provides an English-language summary of the key findings and recommendations of the LHSS Colombia Activity’s full, Spanish-language report “Recommendations on Strengthening the PAIWEB Information System, Focused on Migrants.”

Country/region: Colombia
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Publication

LHSS Colombia Activity presents findings from an LHSS assessment of the PAIWEB information system and provides recommendations for strengthening the system.

Country/region: Colombia
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Fact Sheet

In Tajikistan, LHSS addresses immediate epidemic prevention, detection, and response needs while building on the existing in-country national health system and health system resilience strategies. 

Country/region: Tajikistan
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
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Success Story

The pandemic has presented an urgent challenge to Colombia’s already overburdened, understaffed health system. Rapid response teams are traversing roads, mountain paths, and rivers to help health officials contain the spread of COVID-19. 

Country/region: Colombia
Knowledge Areas: Equity Health Area: COVID-19
Khamphian Maithaphom, a fourth-year medical student volunteer, at the hotline center in April
Success Story

At the request of the Laos Ministry of Health, LHSS helped mobilize volunteer medical students to support a national hotline for COVID-19.  At the peak of the Pai Mai holiday, the hotline fielded 5,000 calls a day.

Country/region: Laos
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
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Success Story

Early in the pandemic, there were no laboratories equipped for PCR testing in Khujand, Tajikistan’s second largest city. To address this challenge, LHSS teamed with USAID’s mission in Tajikistan and the country’s Ministry of Health to train laboratory specialists throughout the nation. 

Country/region: Tajikistan
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
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Blog

LHSS supports scale up and adaptation of existing vaccination programs for COVID-19 while also strengthening countries’ capacity to manage other public health efforts in the future.

Knowledge Areas: Health Area: COVID-19
 

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