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Strengthening Nursing in the Bahamas: 1) Finalize and launch the National Nursing Strategic Plan (2026–2030). Provide technical support for updating nursing regulations, professional standards, and licensing frameworks. 2) Conduct stakeholder consultations (nursing council, MOHW, PHA, academic institutions) to validate and implement the strategic plan. (2026) 3) Implementation of strategies to strengthen the delivery of nursing care in The Bahamas. (2027-2028)
Product/Service: Support to strengthen health/care workforce leadership, management competencies
Output: 3.2.1 WHO provides technical guidance and operational support to countries to optimize and expand their health and care workforce
Output Indicator: Country is reporting on the production of health and care workers
Outcome: 3.2 Health and care workforce, health financing and access to quality-assured health products substantially improved
Outcome Indicator: SDG Target 3.c.1 - Health workforce density and distribution
Phase 5 Output: 1.1 - Health and care workforce improved
Phase 5 Objective: SO1 - Reinforced support to Universal Health Coverage.
Strengthen PHC capacity for prevention and management of NCDs through increased population awareness and improved clinical management, including enhancing health education efforts for NCDs (2026-2028)
Product/Service: Standards for comprehensive NCD care within health systems
Output: 4.1.1 WHO develops evidence-based policies and supports the implementation, scale-up and measurement of best buys and other actions to strengthen person-centered prevention, control and management of noncommunicable diseases
Output Indicator: Country has evidence-based national guidelines/protocols/standards aligned with WHO guidance for the management of major NCDs through a primary care approach
Outcome: 4.1 Equity in access to quality services improved for noncommunicable diseases, mental health conditions and communicable diseases, while addressing antimicrobial resistance
Outcome Indicator: Prevalence of controlled hypertension, among adults aged 30–79 years
Phase 5 Output: 3.2 - Equity in access to quality services improved
Phase 5 Objective: SO3 - Accelerated progress towards universal access to basic health services, to achieve UHC.
Strengthening national (Infection Prevention and Control ) IPC program: 1) Support IPC and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) awareness raising in the health sector, community and among stakeholders and partners in an effort to prevent and control infections and AMR in The Bahamas, especially in the context of public health emergencies and climate-related crisis. (2026) 2) Support IPC and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) awareness raising in the health sector, community and among stakeholders and partners in an effort to prevent and control infections and AMR in The Bahamas. (2027) 3) Support IPC and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) awareness raising in the health sector, community and among stakeholders and partners in an effort to prevent and control infections and AMR in The Bahamas. (2028)
Product/Service: Guidance and tools to optimize antimicrobial use and treatment, AWaRe and SECURE
Output: 4.1.4 WHO develops and disseminates guidance and tools to mitigate antimicrobial resistance, collects and reports data for action, raises awareness, guides research and innovation, builds country and regional capacity to implement a core package of i
Output Indicator: Implementing and monitoring government-endorsed multisectoral antimicrobial resistance national action plan based on WHO guidance with necessary financing
Outcome: 4.1 Equity in access to quality services improved for noncommunicable diseases, mental health conditions and communicable diseases, while addressing antimicrobial resistance
Outcome Indicator: SDG 3.d.2 Percentage of bloodstream infections due to selected antimicrobial-resistant organisms
Phase 5 Output: 3.1 - The primary health care approach is strengthened
Phase 5 Objective: SO3 - Accelerated progress towards universal access to basic health services, to achieve UHC.
Enhancing the use of digital health and data for improvement of PHC and maternal outcomes: 1) Expansion of SIP+ to family islands, including updating procedures and training of healthcare providers. (2026) 2) Supporting the implementation of digital health strategies to strengthen Primary Health Care. (2027-2028)
Product/Service: Guidance to support maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programmes
Output: 4.2.1 WHO provides guidance and technical assistance to improve sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent, adult and older person health
Output Indicator: Country has a strategic plan (whose development was supported by WHO) whose end date has not expired for two or more areas of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH)
Outcome: 4.2 Equity in access to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent, and older person health and nutrition services and immunization coverage improved
Outcome Indicator: SDG 5.6.1 Proportion of women aged 15–49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care
Phase 5 Output: 3.3 - Equity in access to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health
Phase 5 Objective: SO3 - Accelerated progress towards universal access to basic health services, to achieve UHC.
Strengthen MCH services, with emphasis on the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission (EMTCT) of HIV to provide continuous quality care to pregnant women and children: 1) Capacity building for health personnel (public and private). (2026) 2) Capacity building to strengthen integrated prevention, case management, and referral pathways for syphilis and HBV for seropositive pregnant women, their partners, and exposed infants. (2027) 3) EMTCT validation of syphilis and HBV. (2028)
Product/Service: Guidance to support maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programmes
Output: 4.2.1 WHO provides guidance and technical assistance to improve sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent, adult and older person health
Output Indicator: Country has a strategic plan (whose development was supported by WHO) whose end date has not expired for two or more areas of Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH)
Outcome: 4.2 Equity in access to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent, and older person health and nutrition services and immunization coverage improved
Outcome Indicator: SDG 5.6.1 Proportion of women aged 15–49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care
Phase 5 Output: 3.3 - Equity in access to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health
Phase 5 Objective: SO3 - Accelerated progress towards universal access to basic health services, to achieve UHC.
Supporting Disease Elimination in The Bahamas: 1) Support the multi-disease and integrated approach to achieve the elimination of selected diseases. (2026-2028)
Product/Service: Guidance on integrated service delivery networks and care delivery channels
Output: 3.1.1 WHO strengthens country capacity and provides guidance on the design, delivery, quality and measurement of integrated -services
Output Indicator: Country has an integrated UHC package of priority services that meets core WHO criteria
Outcome: 3.1 The primary health care approach renewed and strengthened to accelerate universal health coverage
Outcome Indicator: Integrated services and models of care composite indicator
Phase 5 Output: 3.1 - The primary health care approach is strengthened
Phase 5 Objective: SO3 - Accelerated progress towards universal access to basic health services, to achieve UHC.