{"id":987521313,"date":"2021-04-06T03:03:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T02:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/activists-urge-government-to-prioritise-health-budget-funding\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:27:53","slug":"activists-urge-government-to-prioritise-health-budget-funding","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/activists-urge-government-to-prioritise-health-budget-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists urge government to prioritise health budget funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Society activists have urged government to prioritise health sector funding in plight of the Covid-19 era that the country is going through.<\/p>\n<p>They say the reduction in the health budget to about 5-6 %, significantly falls short of the Abuja Declaration target that requires a state dedication of at least 15 % of its entire annual budget to the health sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA proposal such as this one is particularly outrageous in the middle of a pandemic when thousands of Ugandans have been infected by coronavirus. Hundreds have died and a vaccine still remains out of reach. Funding for health at such a time should be non-negotiable,\u201d the activists urged government on Friday during a workshop in Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>Read full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/news\/national\/-activists-urge-govt-to-prioritise-health-budget-funding-3339506\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil Society activists have urged government to prioritise health sector funding in plight of the Covid-19 era that the country is going through. They say the reduction in the health budget to about 5-6 %, significantly falls short of the Abuja Declaration target that requires a state dedication of at least 15 % of its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":987530995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}