Whilst there, he will launch, together with the South African Minister of Health, a major EU-financed health care programme to help the South African government to enable more people to access better health services.

Specific activities shall include: understanding the determinants of health (including nutrition, physical activity and gender, and environmental, socio-economic, occupational and climate-related factors); improving health promotion and disease prevention; understanding disease and improving diagnosis and prognosis; developing effective prevention and screening programmes and improving the assessment of disease susceptibility; improving the surveillance of infectious diseases and preparedness for combating epidemics and emerging diseases; developing new and better preventive and therapeutic vaccines and drugs; using in-silico medicine for improvin ...[+++]g disease management and prediction; developing regenerative medicine and adapted treatments, and treating disease, including palliative medicine; transferring knowledge to clinical practice and scalable innovation actions; improving health information and better collection and use of health cohort and administrative data; standardised data analysis and techniques; active ageing, and independent and assisted living; individual awareness and empowerment for self-management of health; promotion of integrated care, including psychosocial aspects; improving scientific tools and methods to support policy making and regulatory needs; optimising the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare provision; and reducing health disparities and inequalities by evidence-based decision making and dissemination of best practice and by innovative technologies and approaches.

Specific activities shall include: understanding the determinants of health (including nutrition, physical activity and gender, and environmental, socio-economic, occupational and climate-related factors); improving health promotion and disease prevention; understanding disease and improving diagnosis and prognosis; developing effective prevention and screening programmes and improving the assessment of disease susceptibility; improving the surveillance of infectious diseases and preparedness for combating epidemics and emerging diseases; developing new and better preventive and therapeutic vaccines and drugs; using in-silico medicine for improvin ...[+++]g disease management and prediction; developing regenerative medicine and adapted treatments, and treating disease, including palliative medicine; transferring knowledge to clinical practice and scalable innovation actions; improving health information and better collection and use of health cohort and administrative data; standardised data analysis and techniques; active ageing, and independent and assisted living; individual awareness and empowerment for self-management of health; promotion of integrated care, including psychosocial aspects; improving scientific tools and methods to support policy making and regulatory needs; optimising the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare provision; and reducing health disparities and inequalities by evidence-based decision making and dissemination of best practice and by innovative technologies and approaches.

But above all it needs to make sure that there is sufficient financial support for LRAs in the field of healthcare, not least by making it easier for them to access existing European funds for health-related programmes, in particular those involving cross-border cooperation.

UNICEF's project will target 25,000 children under the age of five, while the World Food Programme will cover a camp in Atrush that is home to 14,000 people. o Health: ECU 1 million for a programme in the north of the country. The aim to provide primary health cover for some two million people. o Rehabilitation: 800,000 ECU, to be spent in the north of the country, mainly on providing drinking water for central Iraq, and restoring vital services for about 514,000 people. o General humanitarian aid in the marshes on the Iraq/Iran border: 400,000 ECU, to be spent on medical aid, food aid and construction materials for a total of about 100, ...[+++]000 people. o Water and sanitation: 810,000 ECU to provide clean water and sanitation facilities for about 42,000 people in the south of Iraq.

It will cover the running of medical and surgical facilities in Juba provincial hospital, in Khartoum and in Lokichoggio, as well as a primary health care programme, a vaccination project and training in basic health care for local medical staff.