HEALTH

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The Health Project will assist the Government of Niger in introducing policy reform in the health sector. It will assist in the implementation of Niger's Structural Adjustment Program at the sectoral level through studies and reform programs aimed at improvements in investment planning, the allocation of recurrent expenditures, cost recovery, the availability of essential drugs, and sector management aid coordination. It will also assist the Government to define policies relating to population and family planning and nutrition. Moreover, in support of the sectoral reform program, the project will improve the efficiency of priority health programs: (i) maternal and child health care including family planning, control of malaria, diarrhea and other communicable diseases, (ii) health education and community initiatives in health and nutrition, and (iii) training of health personnel.