UNOPS is the Fund Manager for the Access to Health Fund, a multi donor fund supp...
UNOPS is the Fund Manager for the Access to Health Fund, a multi donor fund supported by the United Kingdom, Sweden, United States, and Switzerland. The Fund has been established in 2019 to provide support for health needs in Myanmar.
The Access to Health Fund is the third phase of Donors’ commitment to supporting the Health sector in Myanmar through a pooled funding mechanism: the first multi-donor Fund (the Three Disease Fund, 2007-2012) supported HIV, TB and Malaria programs after the withdrawal of the Global Fund from Myanmar in 2005; it was replaced by the Three Millennium Development Goals Fund (3MDG Fund, 2013-2018), which introduced support for MNCH and Health Systems Strengthening alongside the three diseases. The 3MDG Fund ended in December 2018. As its successor, the Access to Health Fund was given a name that reflects a strong focus on conflict affected areas and on reaching vulnerable and underserved populations.
Access to Health Fund is supported by four major donors the United Kingdom, Sweden, United States, and Switzerland to increase use of quality essential health services for poor, underserved, marginalized and vulnerable people in conflict affected areas, and to enable the continued strengthening of the health system.
In 2020, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) commitment, Takeda, a new private donor provides a dedicated fund to Access to Health with the similar vision of reaching essential health services to marginalized and vulnerable populations in conflict affected and hard-to-reach areas and for health system improvement in Shan State. The Takeda Project aims to sustainably improve the health and well-being of people in Shan by working on three pillars: infrastructure and equipment (assets), people, and health systems strengthening.
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