Health Sector Improvement Project

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The project has been designed to provide, within agreed parameters, flexible support towards implementation of the Health Sector Program (HSP) over the period 1992-96. The project would help finance : a) delivery of comprehensive communicable disease programs to control malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy, sexually transmitted diseases and the plague; b) introduction/upgrading of family planning services as an integral component of maternal and child health care; c) improved delivery of primary health care services; d) the first phase of a long term institutional development program to : i) progressively restructure and strengthen the Ministry of Health's (MOH) health delivery system thereby inviting greater popular participation; ii) strengthen MOH's policy formulation and programming, monitoring and evaluation capacity; and iii) broaden the financing base and improve the sustainability of public health expenditures.