Technical Areas Overview

Africa's Health in 2010 provides technical assistance for issues identification, analysis, sharing of promising practices, and monitoring and evaluation across the areas of: Maternal and Child Health; Infectious Diseases; Reproductive Health; Multisectoral programming to improve health outcomes including HIV/AIDS and multisectoral approaches, and Health Systems financing. It provides assistance with strategy development, policy analysis, advocacy, communication and dissemination, monitoring and evaluation on health, population and nutrition issues of importance for African development.

The key technical areas of Africa’s Health in 2010 programs include:

• Advocacy, Communication and Dissemination
• Child Survival
• Gender, Youth & Urbanization
• Health Systems (Health Workforce, Health Financing, Governance)
• HIV/AIDS and Multisectoral Approaches
• Infectious Diseases (Malaria, Tuberculosis, Disease Surveillance and Response, Avian Influenza and Others)
• Maternal and Newborn Health
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Nutrition
• Reproductive Health/Family Planning

The priority issues, with illustrative activities and implementing partners and progress toward program objectives are presented under a section for each one of the above mentioned technical areas.