(1990-1999)
Health
Key policy document: Commission Communication - COM(94)77 (1994) Strategic
priorities:
·
to ensure that the health dimension is taken more fully into account in
development policies, particularly in structural adjustment programmes;
· to help correct structural imbalances in health systems, by directing
action to basic services;
· to facilitate institutional reform
by building capacity at central level and supporting decentralisation;
· to help countries develop systems
to measure and mobilise resources more efficiently.
HIV/AIDS
Key policy document: Commission Communication - COM(93)479 (1993) Strategic
priorities:
· to reduce the spread of the epidemic
while preventing discrimination and exclusion of people at risk of infection
or living with HIV and AIDS;
· to enable the health sector to cope
with additional burden of HIV/AIDS;
· to lessen the impact of the epidemic
on economic and social development;
· to increase scientific understanding
and know-how.
Key policy document: Council Regulation - 550/97 (1997) Strategic priorities:
· to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS
and the spread of other diseases capable of being transmitted sexually
or perinatally;
· to reinforce health and social services
so they can cope with the growing demands of the epidemic;
· to help governments and communities
to assess the epidemic's impact on different economic and social sectors
and to implement strategies to cope with it;
· to develop scientific understanding
of the epidemic and the impact of measures, with a view to improving their
quality (while excluding basic research).
Population
Key policy document: Council Regulation - 1484/97 (1997) Strategic priorities:
· to enable women, men and adolescents
to make a free and informed choice about the number and spacing of their
children;
· to contribute to the creation of
a socio-cultural, economic and educational environment conducive to the
full exercise of that choice;
· to help develop or reform systems
in order to improve accessibility and quality of reproductive health care.
Communicable Diseases
Key policy document: Commission Communication - COM(2000)585 final (2000)
Core areas for accelerated action:
· Reaching optimal impact of existing
interventions, services and commodities targeted at the major communicable
diseases affecting the poorest populations;
· Increasing affordability of key
pharmaceuticals through a comprehensive and synergistic global approach;
·Increasing
investment in research and development of global goods targeted at the
three major communicable diseases.