Cabinet approves MoC between health ministry and Gates Foundation on health

The Union Cabinet has approved the Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the Department of Health and Family Welfare (DOHFW), Government of India and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) on cooperation in the field of health. The MoC was signed in November, 2019 during the visit of Bill Gates, Co-Chair and Trustee of BMGF to Delhi.

The MoC covers the areas of cooperation to reduce maternal, neonatal and child morbidity and mortality, to improve key nutrition outcomes, by improving the reach, coverage and quality of essential primary health, immunization and nutrition services, to increase the basket of choice and quality for family planning methods, specially for reversible methods, and increase access amongst younger women, to reduce the burden of select infectious diseases [TB, Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), Lymphatic Filariasis(LF)] and to strengthen health systems, including aspects such as budget utilization, management and skills of human resources for health, digital health, strengthening supply chains and monitoring systems.

A programme action committee (PAC) will be set up to further elaborate the details of cooperation and to oversee the implementation of this MoC.

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