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The biennial collaborative agreement for 2010–2011 between WHO/Europe and Tajikistan identifies not only priorities for action but also the results to be delivered. The following are the expected results under five priorities to be delivered in the country during 2010–2011

Strengthening the core functions of the health system

1. Stronger national capacity for health policy analysis through institutional development and capacity building in the Ministry of Health and its Health Policy Analysis Unit (HPAU)
2. Political consensus built on health reform as part of comprehensive health systems approach to addressing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
3. Defined directions of reform to strengthen population-based public health services
4. Guidance for the development and monitoring of comprehensive national policies on access, quality and use of essential medical products and technologies
5. Stronger national health system capacity to effectively manage health crisis
6. Progress in improving quality of care including blood safety
7. Stronger health system adaptation to climate change and environmental health

Protection of maternal, child and adolescence health

1. Stronger stewardship function for development and implementation of gender sensitive strategies and policies for improving maternal, child, adolescent and reproductive health, and accelerated progress in achieving international health goals in family and community health
2. Improved access and quality of maternal, perinatal, child and adolescent and reproductive health services at primary health and hospital levels

Strengthening communicable disease surveillance and response, with a focus on HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and polio

1. Stronger immunization systems to maximize equitable access of all people to vaccines of assured quality, including new immunization products and technologies, and to integrate other essential child health interventions with immunization, with special emphasis on sustaining polio-free status and eliminating measles and rubella
2. Stronger capacity to detect early, assess, respond to and cope with major epidemic- and pandemic-prone diseases through the development and implementation of effective tools, methodologies and partnerships
3. Stronger national capacity to achieve universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care, tuberculosis (TB) control and Stop TB Partnership targets and malaria elimination

Improving diet and food safety and security throughout life to improve public health and sustainable development

1. Mechanisms and tools for developing an intersectoral food safety system from farm to table introduced
2. Improved intersectoral approach to strengthen surveillance of waterborne diseases and assess disease burden
3. Development of intersectoral strategy on healthy nutrition with a particular focus on improvement of infant and young child feeding
4. Development of a national nutrition strategy with particular focus on overweight and obesity

Reducing the morbidity and mortality from chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCD) and mental disorders

1. Development and initial implementation of mental health strategy and legislation
2. Introduction of NCD initiative, including injury prevention, diabetes prevention and control, cardiovascular disease prevention and tobacco control
3. Support to ratification of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)