India, China work together for health
June 24th, 2011 - 8:30 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, June 24 (IANS) India and China have worked together to lay down reforms in population, development and reproductive health in 25 developing countries which are part of Partners in Population Development (PPD), a statement said Friday.
Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad chaired the 18th executive meeting of the PPD in Dalian, China June 23-24.
PPD is an inter-governmental initiative launched in 1994 for expanding and improving south-to-south collaboration in the fields of reproductive health, population and development following the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
“For the first time, the committee undertook the revision of existing bylaws to meet the changed requirements and reflect the growing role of PPD in population and development dynamics,” the statement said.
“The important initiative of getting a management and financial audit conducted in the last year to identify the gaps and challenges in the management, implementation and budgeting processes as well as programmatic areas was taken.
“A large number of training programmes have been conducted in various countries to build capacity of the professionals working in the fields of population and reproductive health.”
India has provided 210 scholarships for one-year diploma courses in population health, it added.
The 25 PPD member countries include India, China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Thailand, Mexico, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria.
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