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.

The Local Government Division and LHSS organized a workshop on primary health care plans in Sylhet. This workshop sought to foster collaboration, knowledge exchange, and resource mobilization for the successful implementation of primary health care implementation plans within the urban areas of the country. 

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.

With LHSS support, the Ministry of Health in Ukraine is connecting health facilities with telemedicine equipment, training physicians and patients, and forging other parts of an impactful telemedicine system: policies, transparent financing arrangements for services, and agreed-upon roles among stakeholders.

This Spanish report describes the actions carried out for the development of micro-planning of vaccination strategies and tactics at the territorial level in Colombia, highlighting the successful experiences that were managed in the territories to advance vaccination against COVID-19.

This report describes the activities implemented for microplanning vaccination strategies and tactics at the territorial level in Colombia, highlighting the territorial entities’ successful experiences managing COVID-19 vaccination.

This Spanish report summarizes the actions carried out for the development of micro-planning of vaccination strategies and tactics at the territorial level, highlighting the successful experiences that were managed in the territories to advance vaccination against COVID-19.

This report provides an overview of the community-level communication activities aimed at preventing COVID-19 transmission and promoting vaccination.

This English report describes the communication activities developed at the community level aimed at preventing transmission of the virus and promoting COVID-19 vaccination.

This Spanish report provides an overview of community-level communication activities aimed at preventing COVID-19 transmission and promoting vaccination. 

The purpose of this Spanish report is to describe the communication actions at the community level, developed for the prevention of contagion and promotion of vaccination against COVID-19.

"Through Communidades Saludables, USAID delivered an important donation to amplify the impact of the work carried out by the Valle del Lili Foundation and ProPacífico, incorporating a focus on vulnerable populations such as migrants of different nationalities (mostly Venezuelans)."

This brief highlights the recent shifts in health systems practice toward more explicitly incorporating an SBC lens in social accountability activities that aim to improve overall health system performance and address inequities. The brief synthesizes the growing body of evidence on the role social accountability plays in increasing accessibility to better-quality health care services and uses case studies and lessons learned to highlight how SBC approaches can be more explicitly integrated into this aspect of HSS programming.

This brief builds on the USAID Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS) Strengthening Governance report (2022) and global National Quality Policy and Strategy (NQPS) survey, aiming to provide practical examples and considerations for country practitioners to consider on their quality journeys. It includes case studies of three countries that have used NQPS to mobilize and align resources for quality.