Manas Taalimi, a health sector development program covering the period of 2006-2010, was developed in 2005 by the Ministry of Health as a successor to the first broadly successful Manas I strategy and is an expansion of the health goals embedded in the National Poverty Reduction Strategy (NPRS)...

This report is organized into five chapters. Chapter one provides an estimate of the relative efficiency position of the Kyrgyz Republic based on its health outcomes and health expenditure. It is then analyzed to understand whether the sector is mostly in need of additional funding or needs to...