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South Asian Association for Regional ation (SAARC)meeting

Bangladesh hosts South Asian health ministers.

Health ministers and senior health officials from seven South Asian

nations were meeting Wednesday in the Bangladeshi capital to discuss

regional health issues, with focus on AIDS and bird flu.

Launching " a regional strategy on HIV and AIDS will be high on the

agenda, " Bangladesh Health Minister Khondakar Mosharraf Hossain told

reporters ahead of the meeting in Dhaka.

AIDS is pandemic in India, South Asia's most populous country, while

outbreaks of the H5N1 strain of bird flu have been reported in India

and Pakistan.

During a November summit in Dhaka, seven South Asian leaders agreed

to set up a health surveillance center to fight the threat of a bird

flu pandemic. But details of the center were yet to be worked out.

Mosharraf said the ministers will exchange views and identify

regional collaboration on health policy matters, such as initiating

a regional strategy to provide basic health care services and

sanitation in rural areas.

Most of South Asia's 1.3 billion people live in villages on less

than a dollar a day, and have little access to primary health care

or sanitation, including clean drinking water, according to official

statistics.

The ministers will also discuss regional cooperation in harmonizing

standards, exchanging medical expertise, producing affordable

medicines and exporting pharmaceuticals, including traditional

remedies.

Health ministers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

and the Maldives are attending the meeting, while Nepal is

represented by a senior health ministry official, reports the AP.

http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/26-04-2006/79563-Bangladesh-0

http://www.saarc-sec.org/main.php

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