Health and care

The Government endeavours to ensure that everyone, irrespective of their personal finances and where they live, has access to good health and care services of equal standard.

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The Ministry of Health and Care Services has chief responsibility for health policy, public health, health services, municipal services for the elderly and disabled, health legislation and parts of social legislation in Norway.

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Success in efforts to increase vaccination of children in developing countries

The International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm), a pilot project supported by Norway, is a successful part of the effort to reduce child mortality by providing financing for the GAVI Alliance. Norway provides both political and financial support to the Alliance, which runs vaccination and immunisation programmes in developing countries.

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 28.11.2007)

Informal International Consultation on Farmers' Rights, 18 - 20 September 2007, Lusaka, Zambia

(Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 15.11.2007)

No country can tackle health challenges alone

“Many of the health threats we face do not respect national borders. This makes everyone more vulnerable. No country can reduce this vulnerability on its own", said Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre.

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 28.09.2007)

High-Level Meeting on Global Health and Foreign Policy

Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre held a speech at High-Level Meeting on the Global Health and Foreign Policy initiativ in New York 27 September.

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 27.09.2007)

European Commissioner Markos Kyprianou. Photo: Astraea Antal, Ministry of Agriculture and Food

Norwegian food safety impressed European Commissioner

European Commissioner Markos Kyprianou is impressed at the level of food safety in Norway. On Monday he got to study the system at sea. Today the focus is on agricultural food production.

(Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 05.06.2007)

Children of parents with mental disorders or substance abuse – a political challenge

(Ministry of Health and Care Services , 01.06.2007)

Oslo Ministerial Declaration – global health: a pressing foreign policy issue of our time

Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre had this article in The Lancet together with Ministers of Foreign Affairs from Brazil (Ceslo Amorim), France (Philippe Douste-Blazy), Indonesia (Hasan Wirayuda), Senegal (Cheikh Tidiane Gadio), South Africa (Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma) and Thailand (Nitya Pibulsonggram).

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 21.04.2007)

Global Health and Foreign Policy

- Why would the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs travel half way around the world to participate in a couple of hours’ debate on health issues in Singapore? The answer is the importance of the issue and globalisation. Globalisation is rapidly changing the scope of foreign policy and international relations, Mr Jonas Gahr Støre said.

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 02.04.2007)

Minister of International Development to participate in working group on brain drain in the health sector

Minister of International Development Erik Solheim has accepted an invitation to participate in an international high-level working group, linked to the World Health Organization, that is to discuss the challenges raised by the international migration of health workers.

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 28.03.2007)

Utviklingsminister Solheim

The Challenge of HIV and TB co-infection

Opening statement, Minister of Int. Development Erik Solheim - Research seminar: The Challenge of HIV and TB co-infection, University of Oslo, 01.03.2007

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 01.03.2007)

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