MLI countries to present at maternal health technical workshop
November 17, 2011 (All day)
Bamako, Mali
MLI co-sponsored a technical workshop organized by the Community of Practice on Financial Access to Health Services on the benefits package for maternal health fee exemption policies. Delegations from three MLI countries participated, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Senegal. Mali and Sierra Leone presented their country’s experience with fee exemption policies in plenary.
Sierra Leone hosts ASRH meeting
September 15, 2011 (All day)
Sierra Leone
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone, with support from MLI, hosted a two-day participatory and interactive meeting on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH). On September 15th and 16th, multiple stakeholders met in order to discuss the needs of adolescents and to prepare an implementation plan to ensure that adolescent sexual and reproduction health services including preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) are easily accessible and friendly for young people.
Nepal launches Digital Library
August 03, 2011 (All day)
Kathmandu, Nepal
The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in Nepal has launched a Digital Library containing a searchable catalogue of over 2983 copies of documents including key policy documents and government health acts. They are available in both Nepali and in English. The digital library compliments the already existing Ministry of Health and Population’s conventional library, adding to it more relevant policy documents, guidelines and other health sector related documents as reference material and putting in place a barcode system to track documents online and send automated messages to users.
