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Specific objectives of the Basic Health Project under the Social Priorities Program/Barnamaj al Aoulaouiyat al Ijtimaiya program (SPP/BAJ) are: 1) to provide a better access to essential preventive and curative care from 47 to 60 percent of the targeted population, including equitable access to essential drugs; 2) to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in the targeted areas by increasing the coverage of prenatal visits from 28 to 50 percent and assisted deliveries in a medical setting from 18.5 to 30 percent, and by making available modern family planning methods; and 3) to maintain the performance of priority public health programs at the national level. The project will consist of the following three components: 1) increase in access to essential curative and preventive health care in the thirteen provinces targeted under the project; 2) strengthening of the safe motherhood program in all its aspects within the thirteen provinces; and 3) continuing support for priority health programs nationwide.