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Focus Areas

Please select an item from the list below or browse publications in the box to the right.

  • Family Planning/Reproductive Health
    Key focus areas are maximizing access and quality, FP/HIV integration, contraceptive security, gender, and poverty and health equity.
  • HIV/AIDS
    In the field of HIV/AIDS, success stories are beginning to emerge, demonstrating that efforts to change risk behaviors can be successful, that HIV transmission can be reduced, and that care and support can be effectively delivered.
  • Maternal and Child Health
    Through policy dialogue and implementation, the USAID | Health Policy Initiative strives to increase access to and use of key maternal health services in developing countries worldwide.
  • Crosscutting Issues
    The Health Policy Initiative is mandated to devise appropriate policies and practices to address barriers to health service scale-up, access, quality, and use posed by three crosscutting issues: poverty, gender inequality, and lack of human rights.
  • Other Infectious Diseaes
    The Health Policy Initiative is designed to assist countries with policy and advocacy issues relating to infectious diseases.