Annual Programme of Work 2005 - Ministry of Health

3. PRIORITY HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
The priority for 2005 is to scale up implementation of priority health interventions of
proven efficacy. These interventions are structured around four inter-related themes
consistent with the health sector response to the burden of disease in the country. These
themes have also been selected to provide us with a good opportunity for achieving the
targets defined in the 5YPOW and lay the basis for achieving the Millennium
Development Goals.
The first theme is improving maternal and child health. Under this theme we will package
and deliver maternal and child health interventions that provide the greatest probability of
improving maternal health and promoting child survival and development.
The second thematic area is communicable disease control. Our priority under this theme
is to control communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and
Guinea worm for which a large unfinished agenda still exists in the country. We will also
invest in the control of diseases such as Buruli ulcer, Filariasis, Leishmaniasis,
Onchocerciasis, Yaws and Trachoma that almost exclusively affect the poor.
The third thematic area is non communicable disease. Our priority in this area is to
develop policies and programmes for addressing the non communicable diseases that are
slowly becoming major health problems and yet to date we do not have a credible control
programme.
The fourth thematic area is health promotion and nutrition. The health promotion and
nutrition thematic area constitute a crosscutting response aimed at addressing risk factors
associated with diseases. Box below shows the list of priority interventions.
Priority Health Interventions
• Improving Maternal and Child Health
o Child Health Services
o EPI including Polio eradication and Measles
Elimination
o Maternal and Reproductive Health Services
o Adolescent Health and Development Services
• Controlling Communicable Diseases
o HIV/AIDS and STI Prevention and Control
o Tuberculosis
o Malaria Control
o Guineaworm Eradication
o Control of Neglected Communicable Diseases that
affect the poor almost exclusively
• Preventing and Controlling Non Communicable Diseases
• Health Promotion and Nutrition
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