COVID-19 Response: Lessons from Haiti
IOM’s country office in Haiti assisted the country in boosting its COVID-19 pandemic response by employing a strategy anchored on following pillars: application of a COVID-19 protocol, development of raising awareness activities, COVID-19 contact tracing, and rehabilitation of the local health infrastructure and ambulance system.
Beneficiaries
Local populations, inmates, National Government of Haiti, returning migrants.
Main Actions
- IOM Haiti worked closely with Haiti’s Ministry of Health and PAHO to establish sanitary border protocols aimed at containing new COVID-19 infections.
- Engaged local artists to paint murals in highly populated urban areas in the country calling attention to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- IOM Haiti channeled funds towards rehabilitation of 18 health facilities across the country.
Recommendations
- Incorporating local artists in the risk-communications awareness activities, could be replicated in similar interventions, to improve community spaces.
- The contact tracing assistance provided by the organization in the border areas combined with data collection allowed the mission to prioritize their COVID-19 prevention activities.
- Interventions related to infrastructure adaptation and reconstruction should focus on strengthening the national health systems and promote migrants' equal health access.
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