Population Health & Nutrition Strategic Plan

Global Health strategy is firmly rooted in Agency principles and guidance in the Global Health sector. The Center's strategic approaches directly contribute to the realization of the Agency goal to stabilize world population and protect human health. The Center Strategic Support Objectives build on thirty years of experience and success, incorporate principles from the Cairo Program of Action (1994) and reflect Agency mandates in the areas of gender and women's empowerment. Shown in Table 1, these objectives directly support and contribute to the achievement of Agency strategic objectives to reduce: unintended and mistimed pregnancies, maternal mortality, infant and child mortality, HIV transmission and threat of infectious diseases.

The Strategic Plan 1998-2003 is an updated version of the first Center Strategic Plan written in 1995. The Plan was updated to reflect major changes in the Center strategies, specifically the revision of SSO2 relating to maternal health, the revision of SSO4 relating to HIV/AIDS, and the addition of a new Agency as well as Center strategy on infectious diseases (SSO5).