The Bangladeshi Health, Nutrition, and Population Sector Programme (HNPSP) was designed by the government to reinforce its leadership over health policies and to provide its citizens with the best possible healthcare the country's resources permit. Replacing more than 300 disparate health projects supported by various development partners, the HNPSP aims to align and coordinate the inputs of all stakeholders under one sector framework for planning, implementation and monitoring.

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is supporting the HNPSP with financial cooperation through KfW Entwicklungsbank as well as technical cooperation through the work of GIZ.

GIZ provides technical assistance to key units of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MHFW), including the Health Economics Unit, in order to improve the institutional capacity of the ministry to monitor, steer, and implement the HNPSP. Working with the Ministry, as well as Dhaka City Corporation and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, GIZ has piloted mobile and stationary healthcare services for Dhaka's street dwellers. GIZ was also instrumental in bringing together experts from the German University of Heidelberg and BRAC University to develop a course on quality management for students from public and private healthcare organisations.

Although the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh is low, a recent sharp increase among high-risk groups, such as injecting drug users, poses a risk that the disease could spread to the broader population. To date, there has been little change in high-risk behaviour, and, being a relatively conservative country, there is a general lack of knowledge or discussion about HIV/AIDS, how sexual diseases are transmitted, or the methods of protection.

In response, the multidisciplinary HIV/AIDS programme, supported by GIZ and the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, is working with the City Corporations of Chittagong, Rajshahi, Sylhet, and Khulna to improve healthcare within their areas of jurisdiction and in particular to increase access to health care for vulnerable groups who are at increased risk of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis.