HN/NUTRITION/HEALTH

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The project will provide for: (1) expanding nutrition assistance and developing a longer-term nutrition policy by expanding the food coupon programs to the poor, pregnant and nursing women, children under five, and primary school children, and to give nutrition education for health staff, community workers and mothers focusing on breast-feeding, weaning and early childhood feeding practices; (2) strengthening the delivery of basic health services which includes rehabilitation of about 130 health care centers and construction of an estimated 30 additional health centers in priority rural areas, provide basic drugs for the primary health care network, support the formulation and implementation of a medium-term national AIDS control program; (3) improving environmental health through the provision of rural water supply and sanitation supported by community participation, and a medical waste disposal training program; and (4) monitoring, evaluating and auditing which will include institutional strengthening of the Social Cabinet Executive Secretariat.