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AN INTERVIEW WITH H.E. KLAS MOLIN, SWEDISH AMBASSADOR TO INDIA DONE BY SACHIN GAUR, DIRECTOR OPERATIONS AT INNOVATIOCURIS. By Sachin Gaur (for InnoHEALTH Magazine) Q. What is the Swedish interest in India and your priority topics for Indian health sector? We have a very fruitful bilateral collaboration with India in the health sector, beginning with our development cooperation in areas such as mother- and child health, midwifery and work against communicable diseases. The cooperation has now increased to mutually beneficial partnerships. For the past ten years, we have had a Memorandum of Understanding Sweden-India collaboration in health sector 8 Volume 4 | Issue 1 | January-March 2019 on Health between our countries and next year we are going to celebrate this with an India-Swedish Health Year. Many collaborations of mutual interests are ongoing and being planned that focus in a wide range of areas like antimicrobial resistance, elderly care, pharmaceuticals, non- communicable diseases and digital innovations including artificial intelligence, where the emphasis will be on knowledge transfer, capacity