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EAC Health Data Governance
News

The East African Community (EAC) Secretariat, the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), and the Pan African Health Informatics Association (HELINA) have concluded a commitment by all three parties to foster stronger health data governance to drive digital transformation and innovations in the health sector of East Africa. 

Country/region: East Africa
LAC webinar TEASER
Event

Join LHSS, Doctors without Borders, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Honduras as we discuss the relationship between social protection in health and migration corridors in Latin America.

Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health
IGAD WORKSHOP PHOTO
News

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), with support from LHSS, commenced the first Technical Workshop on strengthening domestication and implementation of regional Health cross–border policies, in Bishoftu, Ethiopia.

Country/region: East Africa
6/14 webinar LAC
Event

Join LHSS and the P4H Network on June 14 as we hear from local, national, and regional institutions working to advance social health protection for women and children in high migration contexts.

Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
EA Landscape analysis report
Publication

This analysis establishes a baseline understanding of current cross-border health challenges and opportunities, and identifies organizational and technical capacity gaps to address within key stakeholders that are leading cross-border health initiatives.

Country/region: East Africa
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Publication

The purpose of the assessment, conducted in 2021 by Two Oceans in Health for the LHSS Latin America and Caribbean Activity, was to understand the Dominican Republic context for expanding social health protection to migrant women.

Country/region: Dominican Republic
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Publication

LHSS provides technical assistance to the Dominican Republic, and this five-year roadmap outlines a strategic vision, objectives, and initiatives for reaching the final milestone of expanded insurance and standardized health service packages for migrant women residing in or transiting through the Dominican Republic.

Country/region: Dominican Republic
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
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Publication

LHSS activity in the Dominican Republic during its first year of implementation and detailed steps to pilot initiatives that aim to improve SHP for migrants (including women) in the Dominican Republic

Country/region: Dominican Republic
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
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Video

This video highlights the first training session for the standardization of HIV community services held in Santo Domingo, September 2021 by LHSS in partnership with the National Health Service.

Country/region: Dominican Republic
Knowledge Areas: Health Area: HIV/AIDS
Cover of HSS Practice Spotlight - Ethiopia’s Information Revolution. Words and Graphics appear in a typical report format.
BRIEF

This Practice Spotlight brief describes the Ethiopia Ministry of Health’s Information Revolution, an initiative that aimed to improve health services by facilitating better availability, quality, and use of health data across the health system.

Country/region: East Africa
Migrant children and mothers gather with blankets and luggage in a UNICEF tent
Blog

For countries facing a large influx of migrants, the best way to ensure that these new members of society have sustained access to essential health services is to have a long-term strategy – one that builds on existing health platforms.

Haitian patient receives care in Hospital Ramon Matias Mella, DR. Credit European Union, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Blog

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.

Country/region: Dominican RepublicPeru
ASTMH 2021 Annual Meeting
Presentation

LHSS implemented a PMI-funded activity in four countries to do a landscape analysis of private sector contributions to malaria programming and identify potential strategic opportunities to strengthen private sector engagement. 

Country/region: East Africa
LHSS photo 5_RRT w migrants in Sincelejo, Sucre Department_cropped 2_1
Blog

Population movement of this magnitude places huge stress on health systems in receptor countries. How can health care for migrants be financed? How can health system capacity be expanded? And how can health sector policies and national migration policies be harmonized? 

digital financial services improve
Blog

The proliferation of mobile telephones and advances in digital financial technology have created opportunities for faster progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage.

Country/region: BangladeshEast Africa
 

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