Health Partnerships Program Celebrates Completion
The Health Partnerships Program announced its completion at the regional conference “Partnerships as a Strategy for Health Profession Development” held on July 11-12 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The conference was attended by representatives from the Ministries of Health of all five Central Asian countries, officials from other government institutions, and partners from US and local universities.
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Central Asia’s women benefit from improved family medicine services, one of the
focus areas of USAID’s Health Partnerships Program
Photo Credit: AIHA |
Implemented by the American International Health Alliance (AIHA), the Health Partnerships Program supported health care reform efforts in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan through volunteer-driven, peer-to-peer partnerships. The program worked with the region’s leading institutions, communities, universities, and schools to build health sector capacity at both the national and regional levels.
Among the program’s many achievements are the Concept on Reforming the Medical Education, which was recently adopted by the Kazakh Government with the program’s support, and a series of model community-oriented primary care centers established in several cities across Kazakhstan. The program also helped open two Family Medicine Training Centers in Turkmenistan, where doctors and nurses learn skills-based, practical family medicine; a Health Management Training Center in Ashgabat for health facility managers; and the Republican Training Center for Family Medicine and the Nursing Learning Resource Center in Tajikistan. Thousands of region’s health professionals were trained in primary health topics and emergency medicine, and a number of medical facilities have benefited from donations of medicines, supplies, and equipment through the USAID program.
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