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  title info:
    title: Nepal-WHO country cooperation strategy (CCS) 2018-2022
  name:
    name part: World Health Organization
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    date issued: c2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii,51p.
  abstract: SUMMARY: Nepal has made impressive progress in health outcomes relative to its income level. Life expectancy has been steadily increasing and Nepal's progress in reducing maternal and child deaths has been lauded internationally, even though the maternal mortality remains the highest in the South-East Asia Region. There are notable achievements in reducing prevalence of HIV and TB and Nepal is on track to be malaria-free by 2025. Aggregate improvement in health outcomes, however, mask the large urban-rural, gender, poverty, ethnicity and caste inequities. Following decades of political uncertainty, the country is going through a political transition from a unitary state to a federalized structure with new roles and responsibilities for local, provincial and federal governments. Nepal's newly endorsed Constitution enshrines the right to healthy living and access to health services as a fundamental human right. It guarantees every citizen with the right to free basic health services from the State, emergency health services, and equal access to health services. This implies a significant restructuring of the state and provides an enviable opportunity to re-organize the health systems around the principles of universal health coverage. While closely following these historic developments, tge CCS is also informed by the aspirational national policies and strategies-National Health Policy (2014) and Nepal Health Sector Strategy (2015-2020)-and its international commitments made by the Government of Nepal, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It was developed in consultation with senior officials in the Ministry of Health and Population, partners and WHO Country Office staff. A CCS Committee was formed in the Ministry of Health and Population that provided technical guidance for its development. Several rounds of discussions with Secretary of Health, senior management of the Ministry of Health and Population, and the Regional Office, coalesced around four strateg…
  note: Research Report.
  subject:
    topic: Country cooperation strategy
  subject:
    topic: Nepal
  classification: RES-00872
  identifier: http://nhrc.gov.np/contact/
  record info:
    record creation date: 181230
    record change date: 20220906184705.0