EAC-SIDA Integrated Health Programme (ESIHP): 2016 - 2020

Abstract

The EAC Integrated Health Programme will build on actions, results and lessons of recent and current EAC Health Programmes particularly those focusing on regional cooperation on SRHR/RMNCAH and HIV&AIDS. Achievements of these initiatives included development of Policies, Strategies and Frameworks for regional cooperation on health. The HIV/AIDS programme among others spearheaded harmonized programming for mobile, vulnerable and key populations along the EAC transport corridors where health services are minimal and scattered. In response to the fragmented nature of health and HIV programming along the corridors the EAC Secretariat has developed key guidance documents to inform programming for the aforementioned populations. The EAC Open Health Initiative/RMNCAH successfully convened the 2nd East African Health Ministers and Parliamentarians Forum on Health and Symposium on Reproductive Maternal Newborn and Child Health and the Inter-parliamentary Forum on Population Health and Development whose outcome documents and recommendations informed the EAC agenda for women, children and adolescent health post 2015.