USAID launches quality health care project
USAID is pleased to announce the Quality Health Care Project, which will expand USAID’s transformational work in health system strengthening, improvements to primary health care service delivery, and HIV and tuberculosis prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in Central Asia. This five-year, $70 million program will work in partnership with Ministries of Health across the region to further improve health in all countries in Central Asia.
“USAID has supported health systems strengthening in Central Asia for nearly 15 years and the new Quality Health Care Project re-focuses our efforts to further improve the quality of health care in these countries, said Erin McKee, Acting Regional Mission Director of USAID Central Asia. “We are excited about this project, how it is designed to leverage recent achievements and lessons learned, and we look forward to the health improvements it brings to the people of Central Asia.”
The overall goal of the Project is to improve the health status of Central Asians by building the capacity of country-level health systems to better meet the health needs of vulnerable groups. To do so it will introduce or institutionalize quality improvement methodologies at all levels of health services management and empower the community to respond to health needs. It will link broader health system strengthening with maternal and child health, cardiovascular disease, tuberculosis, and HIV service delivery improvement.
In Kyrgyzstan, the Project will support further evolution of the Manas and Manas Taalimi reforms representing international best practice. The Project will support the next generation of reform based on Kyrgyzstan’s new health sector strategy which is currently under development and intended to solidify the gains of health financing reform and remove barriers to improving quality and health outcomes. The Project will work with partners including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Kyrgyzstan across all health system functions and priority programs including TB, HIV, maternal and child health, and cardiovascular disease to accelerate, solidify, and institutionalize gains in health care quality.
This program is one of many assistance projects supported by the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
