The Treaty on the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between Russia and Iran covers several core areas including the health sector.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Russian President Vladimir Putin inked the agreement during an official signing ceremony in Moscow on Friday. 

The two countries will boost collaborations on organizing state-run health system and managing activities in the health sector, preventing and treating communicable and non-communicate diseases, protecting mother and child health, establishing state regulations on distributing medicines and medical devices, promoting a healthy lifestyle, conducting medical researches, utilizing digital technologies in the healthcare system, and providing professional training to health experts, health ministry website reported.

The two countries will also strengthen cooperation in the fields of food hygiene, healthcare security, and epidemiology based on national laws and policies for the prevention and control of communicable diseases complying with international treaties.

The two sides will also enhance long-term and constructive relations in higher education, science, technology, and innovation; implement joint scientific and technical projects, and develop interactions among interested educational and scientific institutions.

Exchanging professors and students, sharing scientific and technical knowledge, scientific literature, periodicals, and bibliographies, as well as holding joint conferences, meetings, and exhibitions were among other parts of the agreement.