Thursday, 03 February 2005

U.S. HEALTH-CARE INITIATIVE STARTS IN CENTRAL ASIA

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Kent Hill, USAID assistant administrator for Europe and Eurasia, told a news conference in Almaty on 3 February that the United States has launched a five-year, $30.5 million program to improve health care in Central Asia. Hill said, \"The program is aimed at assisting the Kazakh government and other Central Asian states in improving, above all, the quality of first aid provided to the population.
Kent Hill, USAID assistant administrator for Europe and Eurasia, told a news conference in Almaty on 3 February that the United States has launched a five-year, $30.5 million program to improve health care in Central Asia. Hill said, \"The program is aimed at assisting the Kazakh government and other Central Asian states in improving, above all, the quality of first aid provided to the population.\" In Kazakhstan, which will receive 25 percent of the funds, the program will work to reform health-care financing and management. In Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the program\'s aim is to improve sanitary and epidemiological services. (Interfax-Kazakhstan)
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