Learning and knowledge sharing are fundamental to the LHSS Project. We invite you to search LHSS knowledge products and resources for the latest approaches, insights, and learning in the field of integrated health systems strengthening.
With a small grant and technical support from LHSS, a Ugandan pharmacy and logistics company, MM Partners Logistics Ltd., expanded its e-Pharmacy platform to include more family planning products and increased the capacity of its dispensing staff to provide better counsel to clients on reproductive health and family planning.
.A validated, streamlined set of metrics can help the HIV community drive toward such a “people-centered” orientation and advance the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS’ 2025 target of linking at least 90% of people living with HIV and people at risk to people-centered and context-specific integrated services.
This brief highlights Timor-Leste's health progress over the last two decades. It provides an analysis of government expenditures and offers recommendations to improve PHC financing, budget execution, and service quality. The focus is on enhancing financial protection, increasing resource management efficiency, and ensuring sustainable investments in PHC to advance health outcomes and universal health coverage.
This course is an interactive, four module, online self-study course on processes used by countries to set health priorities that are reflected in national health policies. Each module allows participants to engage with the materials and reflect on their own country’s context.
Explore our latest report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Vietnam, which provides an in-depth analysis of antibiotic use and resistance patterns from 2019 to 2022 by using the database from the Social Health Insurance (SHI) system at the country level. This study, undertaken by the Local Health System Sustainability (LHSS) project in collaboration with Vietnam Social Security (VSS), offers valuable insights into the trends of antimicrobial consumption, including data on Defined Daily Doses (DDD), cost implications, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prescribing practices.
While health systems practitioners aren’t going out to sea with men named Ishmael, we chase our own white whale: evidence. Evidence that health systems interventions impact the availability, affordability, and accessibility of healthcare.
Creating a network with interoperable data management systems holds great potential to revolutionize Cambodia’s entire social safety-net ecosystem, providing improved efficiency for policymakers, implementing organizations, service providers, as well banks that subsidize services.
With increased migration around the world posing unique challenges and opportunities for health systems, efforts to better integrate and include migrants and host communities in national health systems are an integral part of the global health equity agenda.
This brief introduces implementation research as an effective means to addressing health equity challenges and offers country examples illustrating how the approach can enhance equity in the broader context of health system strengthening.
As USAID’s flagship health initiative in Timor-Leste, the USAID Health System Sustainability Activity made significant contributions over the past four years, strengthening Timor-Leste's health system in financing, governance, and service delivery. Key achievements include the advancement of health system governance, establishment of a Health Financing Unit (HFU) to oversee the Timor-Leste Health Financing Strategy, and creation of the Health Management Information System (HMIS) Technical Working Group to ensure ongoing data quality improvement.
Featured as part of the Closing Ceremony for the Activity in June 2024, this video highlights work of the USAID Health System Sustainability Activity in supporting Timor-Leste build a self-reliant health system that is well-governed, efficient, accountable, and responsive to people’s needs.
Watch the video recording of the Closing Ceremony for the Timor-Leste Activity, which was held in Dili on June 14, 2024.
With investment of nearly $60 million, LHSS supported USAID's COVID-19 response in 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia, between March 2020 and September 2023.
Join us as we discuss key questions regarding the integration of migrants into national health systems, considerations for migrants and host communities, and strategies for promoting health equity.
This Year 5 Quarter 1 Report (Oct-Dec 2023) was prepared for USAID and provides a progress update for all annual work plan activities.