A sum of €80 million will go towards improving access to healthcare for mothers and children and a further €4 million will be earmarked for civil society in the health sector in Burkina Faso.

72. Recalls the urgent need for trained health workers in developing countries, as well as the need to prevent the brain-drain of trained health professionals by means of financial incentives and training support; underlines the importance of integrated health services relating to HIV and SRHRs, as well as of involving civil society, local authorities, communities, public health non-profit organisations and volunteers organisations at all levels when setting up health services; insists, in particular, on the need to facilitate access to SRHR-related healthcare in rural and remote areas;

74. Recalls the urgent need for trained health workers in developing countries as well as the need to prevent the brain-drain of trained health professionals through financial incentives and training support; underlines the importance of integrated health services relating to HIV and SRHR, as well as of involving civil society, local authorities, communities, public health non-profit organisations and volunteers organisations at all levels when setting up health services; insists, in particular, on the need to facilitate access to SRHR-related healthcare in rural and remote areas;

52. Calls on the EU to support all measures being taken by Sahel countries, NGOs, and civil society to improve access to care, especially for the most vulnerable populations; calls on international organisations to continue the efforts to eradicate HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and meningitis, which cause numerous deaths; underlines the need to design and implement health programmes in order to strengthen health systems, taking into account the fact that the global economic crisis has undermined progress on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases; points out that ...[+++]some Sahel populations are nomadic and cannot easily gain access to care; calls, in this connection, for support to be given to care-related awareness and training campaigns;

53. Calls on the EU to support all measures being taken by Sahel countries, NGOs, and civil society to improve access to care, especially for the most vulnerable populations; calls on international organisations to continue the efforts to eradicate HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and meningitis, which cause numerous deaths; underlines the need to design and implement health programmes in order to strengthen health systems, taking into account the fact that the global economic crisis has undermined progress on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases; points out that ...[+++]some Sahel populations are nomadic and cannot easily gain access to care; calls, in this connection, for support to be given to care-related awareness and training campaigns;

The Commission’s assessment focuses on evaluating the Member States’ approaches to the four key areas of education, employment, healthcare and housing, and on how structural requirements (cooperation with civil society, with regional and local authorities, monitoring, antidiscrimination and establishment of a national contact point) as well as funding are addressed.