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Goal One: Empower individuals and families to manage their own health:
- Increase health literacy of the general population based on defined outputs of the Health Literate Care Model.
- Reduce morbidity and mortality from CNCDs by 25 percent consistent with the WHO Global Action Plan.
- Reduce under-five mortality rate from 17.2 per 1000 to 8.0 per 1000 consistent with MDG target.
- Reduce the number new HIV infections by 50 percent; and increase the number of persons diagnosed with HIV infection receiving sustained antiretroviral treatment to 90 percent.
- Improve the standard of health and social services provided to the mentally ill, elderly, persons with disabilities and abandoned children.
Goal Two: Strengthen Health Systems and Community Support Mechanisms:
- Create requisite regulatory and administrative frameworks that will improve quality of care and access to health services
- Institutionalize health sector planning and programming, including health information management.
- Enhance the capacity of the health sector to prevent and control disease conditions
- Reduce public health risk by improving environmental health conditions
- Achieve and maintain established benchmarks for management of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies
- Maintain adequate human resources to deliver effective health services at all levels
- Improve standard of accommodation and structural integrity of health care facilities
- Increase financial resources available for health by 25 percent through the application of innovative financing mechanisms
Goal Three: Expand Strategic Partnerships:
- Create mechanisms to stimulate intersectoral partnerships
- Implement health-related agreements acceded to by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda
- Deepen relationships with traditional and non-traditional international development partners
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A.1 - Eradicate poverty
Reinforce the public policies and actions needed to eradicate poverty and break the cycles of exclusion and inequality as a condition for achieving development in the region.