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With support from partners, a reproductive health unit is being established to strengthen reproductive health building on existing initiatives such as the workforce development and Community healthcare workers (CHWs) programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main objectives to be achieved by this unit are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To support countries to promote governance, health promotion and protection policies to reduce the NCDs\/Mental ill-health morbidity and mortality<\/li><li>To develop and strengthen coordinated surveillance systems for Member States to collect routine data on major NCDs\/Mental ill-health and their risk factors and promote data-sharing mechanisms with relevant stakeholders at country, regional and continental level.<\/li><li>To facilitate the implementation of health systems strengthening policies and programmes in Member States for expanding quality basic NCDs\/Mental health services including access to quality, efficacious and affordable medicines, treatments and technologies and their integration into primary healthcare systems towards UHC<\/li><li>Strengthen Member States workforce\u2019s ability to identify and address NCDs\/Mental ill-health and improve surveillance, prevention, and control<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prevention and control of Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental health on the continent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9087,"parent":9037,"menu_order":0,"template":"","tags":[],"thematic-area":[],"region":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-9052","programme","type-programme","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Unit of Non-Communicable Diseases and Mental Health &#8211; 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