Translation of "système sanitaire urbain " (French → English) :

37. Insists that the farming and rural population be supported by improving its economic and health situation and developing rural areas; stresses that such support should take the form of financial and infrastructure support, facilitating access to loans for small producers, introducing a weighting system for aid that favours small enterprises and young entrepreneurs, and setting up vocational training programmes; stresses the need also to create a network for the regional interconnection of rural and urban areas and improve access ...[+++] to information in rural areas;

A three-year project led by the Commission with ten partners from Greece, Germany, Hungary and Italy has developed an innovative system for monitoring and managing urban air quality and the related health risks.

Main objectives of this programme are to support strategically chosen health districts nationwide, including an epidemiological surveillance system; maintenance of the caseload of 45,000 Angolan refugees; a nutritional programme for vulnerable groups in urban settings or in specific rural areas; provision of potable water; support to recent displaced families and those displaced ready to return home.

REPUBLIC OF MALI Programme of support for 7th EDF - ECU 10 220 000 the improvement of the GRANT national health service The structure of the Mali health service is still largely pyramidal and based on health districts (52, six of which are urban).

As a follow-up to the relevant Council Resolutions it is necessary to: - support the definition and implementation by partner countries of more equitable and sustainable health policies particularly with regard to gender issues and to reaching disadvantaged and geographically distant populations; ensure better integration within health policy of action in the field of reproductive health; - increase support to the reform of health care systems and to the further expansion of primary health care services including sexual and reproductive health care and services, preventive activities, in particular the prevention of epidemics, and reha ...[+++]bilitation; develop access to medicines including vaccination and their rational use, especially for very poor and marginalised people; promote staff training, a rational and efficient use of human and financial resources allocated to health and an efficient distribution of roles between the public and private sectors; - increase the effectiveness of investment in water, sanitation, and housing, particularly in urban areas; promote measures of primary prevention (e.g. safety at work, road security, reduction in air and water pollution) and access to sufficient food of good quality at household level ; - secure the integration of all health concerns into other development policies with special emphasis on the socio- economic impact of the spread of HIV/AIDS. d) Education and training Education and training is also a major priority of development aid and of coordination between the Community and Member States.