{"id":987524881,"date":"2020-05-23T03:40:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T02:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/world-bank-fast-tracks-100-million-covid-19-support-for-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:46:02","slug":"world-bank-fast-tracks-100-million-covid-19-support-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/world-bank-fast-tracks-100-million-covid-19-support-for-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank Fast-Tracks $100 Million COVID-19 Support for Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, April 2, 2020\u2014<\/strong> The World Bank\u2019s Board of Executive Directors today approved a $100.4 million grant for the <strong>Afghanistan COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project<\/strong> to help Afghanistan take effective action to respond to the threat posed by COVID-19 and strengthen its public health preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>This new fast track package will cover all 34 Afghan provinces and reinforce essential health care services to slow down the spread of COVID-19 across Afghanistan and deliver optimum care in the case of a surge in demand for treatment. The financing will support infected people, at-risk populations, medical and emergency personnel as well as service providers, medical and testing facilities, and national health agencies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2020\/04\/02\/world-bank-fast-tracks-100-million-covid-19-support-for-afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, April 2, 2020\u2014 The World Bank\u2019s Board of Executive Directors today approved a $100.4 million grant for the Afghanistan COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project to help Afghanistan take effective action to respond to the threat posed by COVID-19 and strengthen its public health preparedness. This new fast track package will cover&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1352,"featured_media":0,"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\/987524881"}],"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\/1352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987524881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}