KABUL: Ahmad Saleh, the newly appointed head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Afghanistan, has met with Mawlavi Noor Jalal Jalali, Afghanistan’s Minister of Public Health.
The Ministry of Public Health said discussions focused on ongoing activities and the implementation of UNDP-supported projects related to malaria, HIV, tuberculosis and other health programmes in Afghanistan.
According to the ministry’s statement, the new UNDP chief assured the Afghan side of the effective implementation of these projects and pledged cooperation to improve the delivery of programmes under the Global Fund’s eighth grant cycle (GC8).


