{"id":987521994,"date":"2021-04-29T03:10:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/vaccine-procurement-and-financing-benefits-from-a-coherent-approach\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:24:24","slug":"vaccine-procurement-and-financing-benefits-from-a-coherent-approach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/vaccine-procurement-and-financing-benefits-from-a-coherent-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200bVaccine Procurement and Financing Benefits from a Coherent Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nepal has largely been dependent on its neighbours India and China for its supply of COVID-19 vaccines both purchased and received as donations as the two countries\u2019 attempt to use vaccine diplomacy<\/a> to strengthen their influence on the small Himalayan nation. Nepal also purchased  348,000 from the World Health Organization-backed Covax scheme <\/span>which <\/span><\/span>arrived in March<\/span> <\/span>2021<\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While the Nepal government was sourcing its vaccines from India financed through its health <\/span>budget after<\/span><\/span> the latter\u2019s initial donation of 1 million doses in January<\/a> of this year, the slowing of vaccine imports by India halted the vaccine drive for a while.<\/p>\n

In the last week of March,<\/span> <\/span>Beijing decided to dispatch 800,000 doses of China\u2019s Sinopharm vaccine to Nepal as a priory and the country is now set to resume its vaccination drive. <\/span>This is an example, how<\/span> developing nations are resorting to multiple ways of vaccine procurement- direct purchase, COVAX, donations, <\/span>and <\/span><\/span>domestic production <\/span><\/span>if <\/span><\/span>they have the <\/span>needed capacity and <\/span><\/span>infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the original news report here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Image credits: CNBC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Have anything to say about Nepal’s pandemic preparedness and financing? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n

Have anything to say about Nepal’s COVID-19 Vaccine purchasing? Please let us know in the Comments Section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nepal has largely been dependent on its neighbours India and China for its supply of COVID-19 vaccines both purchased and received as donations as the two countries\u2019 attempt to use vaccine diplomacy to strengthen their influence on the small Himalayan nation. Nepal also purchased  348,000 from the World Health Organization-backed Covax scheme which arrived in March 2021. While the Nepal government was sourcing its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521994"}],"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\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}