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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
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Publication

This report documents a rapid assessment of the Honduran context to expand SHP for women and children in high-migration contexts, including women and children at risk of migration, returned migrants from the United States, and migrants in-transit through Honduran territories on their migration journey.

Country/region: Honduras
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
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Blog

Uniéndose, las organizaciones locales y regionales están trazando un camino adelante para mejorar el acceso a la atención médica para las mujeres y otros migrantes vulnerables en Honduras.

Country/region: Honduras
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
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Blog

Joining together, local and regional organizations are plotting a way forward to improve health care access for women and other vulnerable migrants in Honduras. 

Country/region: Honduras
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
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Blog

​​​For countries wanting to strengthen health budget execution, learning about promising approaches used by others is one thing but putting them into practice is another. This blog reveals how two countries, Lao PDR and Peru, adapted promising practices and began to implement them.

Country/region: GlobalLaosPeru
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Publication

LHSS conducted a desk review to inform understanding of the Honduran context for expanding social health protection to women at risk of migration, as well as other vulnerable populations.

Country/region: Honduras
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
Cover of report showing title and USAID logo
Publication

LHSS conducted a desk review to inform understanding of the Honduran context for expanding social health protection to women at risk of migration, as well as other vulnerable populations. 

Country/region: Honduras
Knowledge Areas: Migrants and Health Equity
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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
lessons from three countries blog
Blog

What do Lao PDR, Malaysia, and Kenya have in common? All three countries have strengthened their budget structures and processes to enable good health budget execution. Their experiences hold valuable lessons for others striving to increase budget execution and unlock significant resources for health.

Country/region: GlobalLaos
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.

Bangladesh Mother and Child (Credit: David Stanley)
Blog

Poor budget execution results in inefficiencies that undermine the ability of health agencies to improve access to needed health services and improve population health. Yet billions of dollars in unexecuted health budgets are returned to treasuries every year. 

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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