- To promote provision and progressive realisation of universal access to the preventive and promotive services addressing major causes of the disease burden due to communicable conditions
- To put in place interventions directly addressing marginalised elderly persons and vulnerable, marginalised, and indigent populations affected by communicable conditions
- To enhance comprehensive control of communicable conditions by designing and applying integrated health service provision tools, mechanisms, and processes such as, but not limited to, combatting existing public health concerns
- To control vaccine-preventable diseases
- To promote good hygiene and sanitation to control food and water- and food-borne diseases
- To eradicate vector- and insect-borne diseases and other NTDs
To promote rational use of antimicrobials and other drugs, and the control of drug resistance to pathogens
- To promote disease surveillance, epidemic preparedness and response
- To strengthen health information systems for complete and timely reporting of communicable disease incidences;
- To scale up implementation of high-impact health interventions and integrate them with the community health Strategy.
- To increase knowledge to all people to increase control over their health and social health determinants.
