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Addis Ababa,
July 1, 2009 (Addis Ababa) - Ethiopia will be chairing the Global Fund and Programme Coordinating
Board of the United Nations AIDS Program (UNAIDS) for one year taking over the
chair from the US, the Ministry of Health disclosed.
Public relations
service director with the Ministry Of Health, Ahmed Emano said Ethiopia was
elected chair of the Global Fund board last month June 2009, and to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board last December 2008
owing to the country’s commitment geared toward expanding health services
across the nation.
Implementing sound
health policy in the country as well as the efficiency and competence of
the executive body in the health sector also contributed a lot for electing
the nation as chairman of the board.
According to the
director, Ethiopia manages to reduce HIV/AIDS expansion rate in the country
to 2 percent from 7 percent previously. The nation also distributed more
than 21 million canopies among 10,000 localities over the last six years in
order to prevent the outbreak of malaria.
The family
planning service coverage of the nation has reached over 51 percent at
present, he said, the country has trained and deployed more than 30,000 health
extension workers across the nation.
The nation
envisages constructing 15,000 health posts across the country until 2015,
he said, adding the country has so far constructed 12,182 health posts.
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