Health Services Delivery Grant

Provinces	Badakhshan, Baghlan, Bamyan, Faryab, Ghazni, Hirat, Jawzjan, Kabul, Kandahar, Khost, Paktika, Paktya, Takhar
Program	Health (Increasing access of women and children to quality basic health services)
Dates	April 2006 - November 2009
Partner	World Health Organization
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This grant supports the delivery of the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) and the Essential Package of Hospital Services (EPHS) through performance-based partnership grants (PPG) to five provincial-level hospitals, and 22 national and international NGOs serving 480 district level health facilities including district hospitals, comprehensive health centers, basic health centers, and sub-health center clinics and approximately 5,000 health posts in 13 USAID target provinces.  It also supports infectious disease activities, such as the national Disease Early Warning System (DEWS).  The BPHS and EPHS programs are the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's (GIRoA's) national strategies to deliver and expand health services to address the most common health problems throughout Afghanistan.

In September of 2009, this grant will convert to a host country contract and funding will be transferred through the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH).

Services in the remaining provinces are supported by the World Bank and the European Community.

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