{"id":987524403,"date":"2021-10-16T03:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T02:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/funding-boost-supports-ongoing-maori-covid-19-response-in-new-zealand\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:59:27","slug":"funding-boost-supports-ongoing-maori-covid-19-response-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/funding-boost-supports-ongoing-maori-covid-19-response-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding boost supports ongoing M\u0101ori COVID-19 response in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span>New Zealand government raised a budget of $38 million to support M\u0101ori Health providers<\/span>, aiming to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and boost the vaccination rates of the M\u0101ori population.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Out of the total budget, $17 million will be funded to support the providers for the adaptation of current services, while maintaining the essential health services.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>While $14 million of this funding will ensure wh\u0101nau, especially those living in hard-to-reach areas, are able to access testing, vaccinations, medications, and other essential health services.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span>Another $3 million will be invested in a mass media campaign as well as community programs.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span>An additional $2 million will ensure providers can operate through the long outbreak and prepare for outbreaks in the future. To read more, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehive.govt.nz\/release\/funding-boost-supports-ongoing-m%C4%81ori-covid-19-response\">click<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span>Source:&nbsp; The official website of the New Zealand Government<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Picture by <span><span><span><span><span>By&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@dan-whitfield-186196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span><span><span><span><span>Dan Whitfield<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>from&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/2030683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span><span><span><span>Pexels<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand government raised a budget of $38 million to support M\u0101ori Health providers, aiming to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and boost the vaccination rates of the M\u0101ori population. Out of the total budget, $17 million will be funded to support the providers for the adaptation of current services, while maintaining the essential health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987529008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124,133,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524403"}],"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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}