The New Zealand government has signed a purchase agreement with Pfizer for 4.7 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for delivery in 2022. These vaccines will be vaccinated to those who didn’t get the vaccination in 2021. In addition, New Zealand is committed to...
First Deputy Minister of Healthcare and Acting Minister of Healthcare Teymur Musayev received a delegation led by Russian Healthcare Minister Mikhail Murashko. The event was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to...
CIS executive committee has released its weekly issue for October 29- Novermber 4 period of the Bulletin titled "CIS countries efforts in the fight against coronavirus disease". The Bulletin traditionally includes review of 11 CIS Member States' activities in times of...
On February 9, 2016, the agreement between Georgia and the European Investment Bank, which was aimed at improving the municipal infrastructure, entered into force. However, On December 21, 2020, the contract was reprogrammed and due to the challenges caused by the...
World Bank (WB) allocated Additional financing (AF) within the Georgia Emergency COVID-19 Response Project and will finance procurement and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines. To ensure safe and effective systems for COVID-19 vaccine procurement and deployment,...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $ 25 million grant to help the Government of Tajikistan procure and implement COVID-19 vaccines and strengthen the country's capacity to implement the vaccination program. “COVID-19 vaccines save lives and are vital to...
Eurasian Development Bank will allocate a $ 3 million grant to Armenia to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. During the meeting on Friday, the government approved a proposal to sign an agreement between Armenia and the Eurasian Development Bank to provide a grant to finance...
The Gambia received a $30 million grant from the international development association (IDA) to improve the quality and utilization of essential health services amidst COVID-19. The essential health services strengthening project will provide...
Rwanda received $109.4 million funding to support war against COVID-19 in April, 2020. The money was approved on thursday, April 2, 2020 and was disbursed through the rapid credit facility (RCF). The funds are meant to support Rwanda’s efforts in...
The government of Sierra Leone gets additional US$1 million for urgent COVID-19 response. The funds will support the government in implementing its national vaccine deployment plan and ensuring that all vaccines made available to the country through the COVAX...
On 2 October, 2021, the government of Nigeria received approval from the World Bank for $400m credit in additional financing from the International Development Association (IDA) to provide upfront financing for safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine acquisition and...
Tanzania has received US$189.08 million under the rapid credit facility (RCF) and a purchase equivalent to US$378.17 million under the rapid financing instrument (RFI), a total of US$567.25 million. This emergency financing will help finance...
The Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator Strategic Review: An independent report prepared by Dalberg, was published on Friday, 8th October 2021. This report was commissioned by the World Health Organization, on behalf of the ACT-Accelerator partners and as host...
The Maldives’ Covid-19 spending remains largely unchanged from the previous week. The total health and social spending stood at MVR2,109.4 million (MVR2.1 billion). While the total disbursements for the Economic Response Plan schemes remained at MVR1,773.4...
On 28 June, the government of Kenya secured financing for the Kenya COVID-19 Health Emergency Response Project to facilitate affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for Kenyans. This additional financing will enable Kenya to procure more...
