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