{"id":987524406,"date":"2021-10-09T03:35:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T02:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/kenya-secures-130-million-for-covid-19-vaccines\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:14:06","slug":"kenya-secures-130-million-for-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/kenya-secures-130-million-for-covid-19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya secures $130 million for COVID-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>On 28 June, the government of Kenya secured financing for the&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.worldbank.org\/en\/projects-operations\/project-detail\/P173820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Kenya COVID-19 Health Emergency Response Project<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;<span>to facilitate affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for Kenyans. This additional financing will enable Kenya to procure more vaccines via the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team &nbsp;initiative and COVAX. It will also support the deployment of those vaccines by boosting Kenya\u2019s cold chain storage capacity\u2014including establishing 25 county vaccine stores, strengthening the capacity of 36 sub-county stores, and equipping 1,177 health facilities with vaccine storage equipment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>More about this&nbsp;news can be found here<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2021\/06\/28\/kenya-secures-130-million-for-covid-19-vaccines\">https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2021\/06\/28\/kenya-secures-130-million-for-covid-19-vaccines<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 28 June, the government of Kenya secured financing for the&nbsp;Kenya COVID-19 Health Emergency Response Project&nbsp;to facilitate affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for Kenyans. This additional financing will enable Kenya to procure more vaccines via the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team &nbsp;initiative and COVAX. It will also support the deployment of those vaccines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":987529850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[117,2316,124,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524406"}],"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\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}