HEALTH SECTOR SUPPORT

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The purpose of the Health Sector Program Support Project is to support the Government's sector reforms through implementation of its Medium Term Health Strategy (MTHS) as described in the Health Sector Five Year Program of Work (POW). The ultimate aim is to improve the health sector status of Ghanaians. The two main goals of the sector program to support this aim are: 1) provide universal access to a basic package of health services, and improve the quality and efficiency of health services; and 2) foster linkages with other sectors to: reduce population growth rate; reduce the level of malnutrition; increase female education; increase access to water and sanitation; and reduce poverty. The main implementation strategies are: a) improve access, quality and efficiency of primary health services; b) strengthen and reorient secondary and tertiary service delivery to support primary health services; c) develop and implement a program to train adequate number of new health teams to provide defined services; d) improve capacity for policy development and analysis, resource allocation, performance monitoring and evaluation and regulation of service delivery and health professionals; e) strengthen national support systems for human resources, logistics and supplies, financial management and health information; f) promote private sector involment in the delivery of health services; and g) strengthen intersectoral collaboration.