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policies for Maldives, and some of these policies place a lot of emphasis on
SRH35. The Policy Goal 1 of the Health Master Plan 2006‐2015 targets Child
and Adolescent health, and Reproductive and Maternal health promotion.
Health master plan
1. Develop and implement national strategies and plans for promotion of healthy
behaviors in priority areas such as child health, reproductive and maternal
health, nutrition, chronic diseases, emerging communicable diseases, healthy
aging through adaptation of global best practice and global strategies.
2. Develop and implement health promotion campaigns and IEC/BCC materials
utilizing formative research and best practice targeting priority areas.
3. Undertake skill building and behavior change programmes for different target
groups. for example: Mothers & caregivers on child care and feeding practices;
including care during illness, pregnancy and family planning; adolescents and
youth on reproductive health, substance abuse, gender based violence,
nutrition and physical activity and mental health; and life skills education
through school systems and informal networks.
4. Promote and develop plans for implementation of healthy setting such as
healthy promoting hospitals, health promoting schools and health promoting
atolls and islands.
Source: Health Master Plan 2006‐2015, Ministry of Health
5.2.1 Center for Community Health and Disease Control (CCHDC)
The Center for Community Health and Disease Control (CCHDC)* is a
department within the Health Ministry, with the mandate to carry out capacity
building programmes and community awareness programmes. Officials from
CCHDC stated that the national RH programme is not being carried out as it
should.36 One of the concerns that they shared was that any information which
was given to school children on SRH are being given through the Life Skills
programmes, which had not been established in all schools. According to
them the best way to inculcate SRH into the school systems would be to have
a separate module for the topic incorporated in the Life Skills programme
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Ministry of Health Mandate.
Now Health Protection Agency (HPA)
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Information received at Stakeholder Meetings with CCHDC, 2012
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