WORLD BANK PROJECT OVERHAULS TIMOR-LESTE MEDICINE DISTRIBUTION

PHARMACEUTICAL companies supplying Timor-Leste will have their distribution networks within this island country strengthened through a USD17.7 million healthcare system improvement grant from the World Bank, Australia and the European Union (EU). A World Bank communiqué said the money would fund a 'National Health Sector Strategic Plan – Support Project’, to run until 2015, which builds on a USD20 million healthcare improvement project that was funded by the bank and Australia alone. A focus of the new project would be: “strengthening the management of ...


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