The age brackets most affected are

87. Public health priorities.

In terms of health, much remains to be done.

Only 1.3 per cent of the budget is allocated to health.

Health programmes aimed particularly at women and children focus their endeavours on the provision of clean drinking water, sanitation and child health education.

Equal access to health care

WHO, UNFPA and UNICEF are collaborating to address health issues.

UNICEF water, sanitation and hygiene strategies for 2006 2015

Ministry of Health, health policy, 1997 2001.

In the area of environmental sanitation, a total of 82 village water and environmental sanitation committees were established to address issues related to improved practices in the areas of water, hygiene and sanitation, and management of the water projects.

Within that context, priority should be accorded to water supply and environmental sanitation.

(a) Intensive intersectoral collaboration in programmes having an impact on health (such as extension of the basic health infrastructures and the national programme of environmental hygiene and protection)

Therefore, the tradeable aspects of health services should not lead to neglecting the social dimension.

The presenter of the theme Water and sanitation underlined the importance of pricing policies in the supply of water and sanitation services.

52. The Ministry of Health and Social Services continues to be responsible for all aspects relating to public health.

(c) In section I, operative paragraph 7, the words highest attainable standards were replaced by the words realization of the highest attainable standards

Laws approving such treaties shall be endorsed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Public Health

(d) Development of the human and material resources of the environmental hygiene services.

Maximum child survival and development benefits are realized when water supply, sanitation and hygiene programmes are coordinated or integrated with other sectoral programmes.

Takami Program in International Health, Harvard School of Public Health

It was suggested that WHO could play a role in this field.

The WHO Research Policy and Strategy Coordination Programme for 1996 1997 is aimed at developing and strengthening the national health research policies setting up national mechanisms for managing the award of research grants on community health problems training nationals in health research methodology disseminating WHO supported research and improving the involvement of WHO collaborating centres in national health research programmes.

In view of women's role in household sanitation and hygiene, awareness raising campaigns can be effective when targeted to this audience, mobilizing women to spread the sanitation and hygiene message.

Efforts to promote hygiene awareness and safe sanitation include the construction of more than 3,000 household and school latrines as well as community training in hygiene and sanitation.

Mr. Lenton underlined the importance of pricing policies in the supply of water and sanitation services.

You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling.

The Strategic Approach has a broad scope covering at least, but not limited to

288. In the area of health as such the State apos s efforts have been concentrated on two main points

The UNDP Water Governance Programme and the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Programme are working together to develop rural and urban initiatives in water supply and sanitation.

She highlighted water and sanitation as a strategy to support work in both child survival and girls' education, the focus being on creating separate sanitation facilities for girls and promoting hygiene education that can help spread behavioural change from schools to the homes.

Health programme

Guatemala, 2005.

Source HIV AIDS reporting system.

Through its years of WASH programming in priority countries, UNICEF has accumulated experience and expertise in hygiene promotion that can be readily shared with other countries.

(i) Implementation of projects in space medicine and biology (the Bion satellite) and in meteorology (the Meteor 3M satellite with the United States made SAGE 3 instrument on board)

A household survey of health expenditure, supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), will be completed in 1998.

According to World Health Organization (WHO) and Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) evaluations, the Cuban vaccine is the one which has proved most effective in preventing this disease.

Access to sanitation services for the poor could also be expanded through dedicated comprehensive programmes, such as total sanitation campaigns .

In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Department of Family Health had expanded its health programmes and revised its training curricula India had abolished the system of quotas in family planning and was moving towards the integration of family planning into other reproductive health services.

94. Discrimination against ethnic Serbs by Croatian authorities occurs in various ways, manifesting itself in the areas of employment, education, and pensions and health care, among others.

a lack of hygiene and sanitation. However, access to safe drinking water and sanitary facilities for excreta disposal is effective in reducing child morbidity and mortality only when combined with programmes promoting behavioural change in personal hygiene and environmental sanitation.

We appreciate the efforts being made in that regard through the World Health Organization.

To improve women's access to health care.

In this regard, WHO focuses its work at both the country and global levels.

It is also the view of the Committee that many problems remain with respect to the reproductive health of women, the low birth weight of children being a possible manifestation of this fact.