In the wake of recent political conflicts and global sanctions, Afghan women once again have access to family planning and maternal and child health products, thanks to the devoted efforts of a private social marketing organization.

To strengthen capacities and promote equitable access to the Colombian health care system, LHSS and the Healthy Communities program forged several high-impact partnerships in Bogotá. These partnerships focused on supporting the integration process of the migrant population, host communities, and returning Colombians into the country’s health system. This video highlights beneficiaries and partners impacted by this effort.

This video features the efforts of LHSS Colombia grantees to promote inclusion of the migrant population in the health system through a community leadership initiative to improve the provision of maternal health care in the Riohacha District and strengthen the overall capacity of the Colombian health system.

This video provides highlights from a national meeting on migration and health held on April 27, 2023.

This document contains the impact and learnings of the intervention gestating lives and reaping a future carried out by Megasalud to design and implement initiatives for the strengthening of comprehensive health care for pregnant women, and Venezuelan migrants.

This Spanish document contains the impact and lessons learned from the Access Without Borders intervention by the Oriéntame Foundation to optimize the territorial management of the response to the Sexual and Reproductive Health of the Venezuelan migrant population and host communities.

This Spanish document contains the impact and lessons learned from the intervention Strengthening Information, Education and Communication (IEC) Capacities carried out by Uniminuto to strengthen IEC processes in the communication offices of municipal, district or departmental health secretariats.

This Spanish document contains the impact and learnings of the My Patient intervention carried out by Netux to expand the My Patient technological solution, for the surveillance and follow-up of symptomatic cases of pneumonia, bronchiolitis, and COVID-19.

This Spanish document contains the impact and lessons learned from the health networks intervention carried out by Profamilia to strengthen the capacities and knowledge of 21 IPS in the cities of Bogotá – Soacha, Medellín, Cúcuta, Bucaramanga, Cali, Barranquilla, and Santa Marta.

This Spanish document summarizes the impact and learnings of the intervention Forging Healthy Environments carried out by the Sidoc Foundation for the strengthening of socio-emotional and citizenship skills.

The report will describe previous efforts to establish a health professional council, examine the current situation related to the management of health professionals’ competency, quality, and ethics; and assess the current roadblocks to establish a semi-autonomous health professional council.

This document builds on the rural retention desk review conducted by USAID’s Health System Sustainability Activity (the Activity). The desk review assessed WHO’s recommendations (WHO 2010) on approaches to increase recruitment and retention of health workers in rural and remote areas considering the Timor-Leste context and the country’s governing laws.

This brief strategy section will contextualize recruitment within the broader contexts of human resources for health and the broader health system, with the acknowledgment of the ultimate goal: to provide high-quality, accessible health care services to all Timorese people.

This learning brief can be used as a resource for HRH managers, planners, program managers, and frontline practitioners to learn how other countries are approaching and successfully designing and implementing solutions to their HRH challenges. It can also be used as a reference for health policy makers, funders, and implementing partners to inform the design and implementation of HRH resource optimization initiatives covered in this brief.

The COVID-19 pandemic placed extraordinary stress on the Kyrgyz Republic’s health system and health care providers, revealing the need for new approaches that would address the immediate needs brought on by the pandemic and contribute to the country’s health system resilience.