The Australian Agency for International Development, GTZ, the United Nations Population Fund, World Bank, UK´s DfID, UNAIDS, UNICEF and the WHO have agreed that they would jointly work in the healthcare sector in Nepal. [break]
Talking to myrepublica.com, Giriraj Mani Pokhrel, minister for Health and Population, said the donors signed an agreement to this effect on Sunday. “This deal has been struck especially to meet the targets set by Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),” said Pokhrel. The practice until now is that donors develop programs on their own. “But now they will put all the money together in a fund and invest it in accordance with the National Health Policy,” he said.
Nepal had made a commitment in the forum of International Health Partnership (IHP) that it would bring all donors under one umbrella. The IHP was formed to tackle maternal mortality, child mortality, HIV, malaria and tuberculosis. The IHP has listed Nepal under the list of possible countries which can meet MDGs on maternal and child mortality. Minister Pokhrel and his team flew to Geneva on Monday to take part in the second ministerial meeting of IHP, which is most likely to extend further financial and technical support to Nepal.
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