The preparation of this Home- and Community-Based Care Implementation Framework has come at a time when the Ministry of Health is shifting its focus through the Community Strategy towards strengthening health care provision at level 1 (the community – villages, households, families, individuals). HCBC is an integral part of the Ministry’s Community Strategy. Care for…
The Ministry of Health recognizes that heterosexual transmission is the most common mode of transmission of HIV in our set-up and the government priorities should reflect this reality. The Ministry has been at the forefront in scaling up prevention and treatment programmes for HIV/AIDS. As we seek to diversify the prevention efforts, we wish to…
Young people, persons aged 10-24 years, constitute 36 percent of our total population. Today’s young people have diverse experiences given the different political, economic, social and cultural realities they face in their communities. Young people today face many reproductive health challenges, which include sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, teenage pregnancy, unsafe abortion, school dropout, harmful…
This detailed Health Performance Annual Report presents the major causes of ill-health and various outputs as performed by the Ministry of Health and the entire Health Sector. It also shows the resources generated and allocated to the health sector. The primary objective of the 2003 and 2004 Annual report was to provide updated information for…