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WHO successfully conducted JPRM for Sudan with GoNU and GoSS
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Oct 28, 2007 - 7:56:58 AM

WHO successfully conducted JPRM for Sudan with GoNU and GoSS

Sunday 28 October 2007

Khartoum: sudan vision Dilay

The Joint Programme review and Planning Mission (JPRM) exercise was held recently at the WHP Representative office in Khartoum. The planning exercise which determines what WHO will be doing in the coming biennium 2008/2009 in Sudan brought together officials from the Federal Ministry of Health (Government of National Unity), Southern Sudan Ministry of Health, WHO Sudan and EMRO teams.
EMRO Assistant Regional Director, Dr. Abdallah Assadi who led the Mission said � With this year�s JPRM, the team completed the Mission in a short time jointly with the Government of National Unity (GoNU) and the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS)
The National JRPM team both from South (MOH/GoSS) and North (FMOH/GoNU) worked together with WHO team from the Regional office and country office in formulating the plans for the biennium 2008 � 2009. During the JPRM, the draft plant wee discussed and different component activities were integrated. The outcome of the exercise in one plant that has activities for the south and the north.
WHO Representative in Sudan, Dr. Mohammed Abdulwahab commended the members of the JPRM team who worked hard identifying and streamlining the programmes for the next biennium.
�Preparations made for the JPRM wee conscientiously done. Indeed they have led to noteworthy results from the technical discussion and coordination among technical officers to the high-level meetings conducted in Khartoum and Juba. All these directed us to a successful JPRM, Dr. Abdulwahab underscored.
Thirty nine (39) operational work plans for various programmes were developed for biennium 2008-2009. Among the work plans developed in the JPRM are: integrated primary health care, communicable disease surveillance and response, curative medicine, control of visceral leishmaniasis, emergency and humanitarian action, health protection, promotion and sustainable development, HIV/AIDS, human resources development, improving maternal health in Southern Sudan, filariasis elimination programme, malaria prevention and control, neglected tropical diseases control, strengthening surveillance for guinea worm, pharmaceutical programme, schistorniasis control, strengthening and expanding of IMCI, strengthening of community based initiative, vaccine preventable diseases and immunization, vector biology and control and policy formulation, planning, management and biomedical information