Davos: The minister of Planning, Victor Hugo Guilherme, highlighted on Monday in Davos, Switzerland, the investment that the Angolan Government has made in health infrastructure, such as reference and specialist hospitals, as well as in the training of professionals, with a view to expanding and improving the National Health System. According to Angola Press News Agency, speaking at the multilateral session on the "Emergence of the New Global Health Architecture", part of the 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, the minister asserted that these initiatives have improved maternal and child health. In this regard, he pointed out that infant mortality fell from 44 to 32 per 1,000 live births, while mortality for children under 5 years of age decreased from 68 to 52 per 1,000 live births, and maternal mortality decreased from 239 to 170 per 10,000 live births. He highlighted that these results have been possible with the help of development cooperation partners, notably the World Health Organization (WHO), the Global Initiative for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), the Global Fund, among others. According to the minister, Angola's experience stems from its National Development Plan (PDN) 2023-2027, whose aspirations are aligned with the African Union's Agenda 2063 and the United Nations' Agenda 2030. To this end, he argued, one of the initiatives adopted aimed to mobilize financial resources, by strengthening the contribution of each Member State, in order to provide the African Union with the resources necessary to carry out projects at the continental level, thus reducing its dependence on external funding. He stated that the 2023-2027 National Development Plan prioritized the development of human capital, recognizing that the development model can only materialize by ensuring that every Angolan can realize their full potential, investing in health and education, and raising levels of food and nutritional security. However, he acknowledged that there are still challenges, for which the Angolan Gover nment is studying Public-Private Partnership models for the management and upgrading of hospital infrastructure and the construction of new units.