The WHO statement said: "WHO and Unicef are providing the ministry of health with technical and on-site support in planning and implementing large-scale supplementary immunisation activities with oral polio vaccine (OPV) to rapidly stop circulation of the virus".
The Iraqi oil ministry last year published details of technical service agreements that would apply to foreign oil companies on its website, where they could still be seen last week.
The advisers — who, along with the diplomatic official, spoke on condition of anonymity — say that their involvement was only to help an understaffed Iraqi ministry with technical and legal details of the contracts and that they in no way helped choose which companies got the deals.
The first draft of the policy was developed within the ministry with technical assistance provided by WHO.
Sectoral support implemented through the relevant ministries is in terms of technical and infrastructure support.
Malick Tapsoba, technical manager, ministry of development of the digital economy and post, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, @mbakatre Malick has technical responsibility for Open Data Burkina Faso and is involved with the government's paperless e-cabinet system.
Therefore, we propose these 10 principles to assist providers of technical assistance to ministries of health in helping governments make progress in health care.
Support was also provided in the form of technical assistance to the ministry of Health (MOH), GHS and the national AIDS control Program (NACP).
"International partners could do very well to assist us in this drive, to work with the ministry of health … and make technical and financial contributions," he said.
Also sought were the name of the government ministry or department where it was housed, the number of technical and support staff in it, and the titles of the studies it had undertaken in the previous year.
This encompasses a broad audience of technical staff (e.g. in ministries of health), public health professionals, policymakers, researchers, students, and others.
