HEALTH SERVICES PROJECT

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The objectives of the Health Services Project for Sri Lanka are to strengthen the Government's ability to address: a) remaining major public health problems (malaria, malnutrition and HIV/AIDS); b) new challenges raised by the epidemiological transition and the increasing importance of non-communicable diseases of adults; and c) key health policy and financing issues. To achieve these objectives the project will comprise the following components: a) malaria component; b) Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)/AIDS component; c) nutrition component; d) non-communicable diseases; e) program support component, which contains three subcomponents: health policy, management information systems and health education.