The new strategy has seven areas of focus:

  • Primary health care – improving the range of services through the DRDO network
  • Secondary health care – providing effective surgical healthcare
  • RRehabilitative health care – enabling the rehabilitation of people with physical disability
  • Community prevention and response – improving community engagement to prevent poor health
  • Community beliefs and practices – addressing community attitudes towards harmful traditional practices
  • Effective partnerships – strengthen partnerships with communities, local authorities, the private sector and international organisations
  • DRDO institutional capacity – strengthen capacity at branch levels