Cabinet gives ex-post-facto approval to MoC between Health Department, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Cabinet gives ex-post-facto approval to MoC between Health Department, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Cabinet gives ex-post-facto approval to MoC between Health Department, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its ex-post-facto approval on the Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the Department of Health & Family Welfare (DOHFW), Government of India and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) on cooperation in the field of Health signed in November, 2019 during the visit of Mr. Bill Gates, Co-Chair and Trustee of BMGF to Delhi.

The Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) covers the following areas of cooperation:-

• To reduce maternal, neonatal and child morbidity and mortality, 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)].
• 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.

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