The World Bank has agreed to provide $500 million to Bangladesh in additional financing to buy Covid-19 vaccines. The main objective of the WB's additional financing for this project is -- vaccination of 31 percent of the total population of the country through...
Indonesia’s State owned vaccine supplier, Bio Farma Get Loans US$450M from ADB
The Indonesian government recently received approval for a USD 450M loan from the Asian Development Bank to its domestic vaccine supplier PT Bio Farma to boost the country’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement which is under considerable stress owing to global...
Japan to fund $2.8 million project for Vietnam population vulnerable to Covid-19
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/japan-to-fund-2-8-million-project-for-vietnamese-vulnerable-to-covid-19-4268466.html The project "Mitigating Covid-19 impacts on vulnerable populations, ensuring national progress to achieve SDGs in Vietnam" will be...
Minister of Health meets with development partners to promote external support to government priorities
The Minister of Health, Armindo Daniel Tiago, met on 16th April, 2021 with health development partners to take stock of external support in defined priority areas. The Minister exposed the priorities for this period, being the most relevant i) The project to...
Нигер-Ковид19: ИБР предлагает 1,7 млрд. франков КФА
По словам министра планирования Кане Айчату Буламы, размещенным на сайте , финансирование от группы Исламского банка развития (ИБР) должно позволить Нигеру усилить надзор за здоровьем и управление случаями заболевания ковид-19 путем оснащения ключевых...
Niger-Covid19: IDB offers 1.7 billion CFA francs
According to Minister of Planning, Kané Aichatou Boulama, the funding from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) group should enable Niger to strengthen health surveillance and the management of covid-19 cases by equipping key units. It will also involve...
Семинар по объединению усилий партнеров в области цифровизации здравоохранения в сообществе
С 29 по 31 марта был проведен семинар, целью которого была разработка согласованной и бюджетированной глобальной дорожной карты по оцифровке на уровне сообществ с целью согласования действий партнеров. На церемонии открытия семинара были определены результаты, которые...
Partner alignment workshop for the digitization of community health
A workshop was held from March 29 to 31, with the aim of drawing up a concerted and budgeted global roadmap for digitization at community level, with a view to aligning partners. The opening ceremony of this workshop set the results targeted by this...
Covid19: $23 million disbursed to Mauritania
In response to covid-19, the IMF decided to increase its financing to the Mauritanian government. Initially intended to support a reform plan, the Extended Credit Facility agreement between Nouakchott and the Fund has been redirected towards a pandemic response...
ADB approves first loan under its COVID-19 vaccine access facility to the Philippines
The Asian Development Bank is providing the Philippines a $400 million loan for the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines. This is the first loan the bank is providing under its $9 billion Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility announced in...
Sri Lanka receives Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines under COVAX Facility
'Sri Lanka on Sunday received the first batch of 264,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines provided under the World Health Organisation's COVAX facility, an official said. COVAX is the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines...
World Bank to provide $70 million for universal health coverage in Togo
Financing of $70 million (38.5 billion FCFA), approved by the World Bank, will enable Togo to take an important step towards extending health coverage to its entire population, hitherto reserved mainly for civil servants and similar staff. In a press release made...
The Philippines seeks $700-M ADB, AIIB loans for vaccine rollout
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend the Philippines a combined $700 million (about P33.9 billion) by March to buy vaccines and inoculate Filipinos against the COVID-19 disease. Documents of the Beijing-based...
A case for building a stronger health care system in Bangladesh
The havoc that COVID-19 wreaked on Bangladesh is typical of the effect it had on South Asian countries in general in that it exposed the acute lack of investment- financial, infrastructural and in terms of human resources in the public healthcare system. Considering...
Rising healthcare costs and the potential of the African pharmaceutical industry
In Africa, over 80 % of medicines are imported, mainly from India and China for generics, and from major international laboratories for licensed medicines. Medical equipment, masks, tests and protection are also imported, often from Asia. In other...