{"id":987653265,"date":"2021-10-05T03:16:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T02:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/niger-world-bank-injects-funds-into-maternal-and-child-health\/"},"modified":"2021-10-05T03:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T02:16:55","slug":"niger-world-bank-injects-funds-into-maternal-and-child-health","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/niger-world-bank-injects-funds-into-maternal-and-child-health\/","title":{"rendered":"NIger: World Bank injects funds into maternal and child health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niger&#8217;s healthcare system is facing major difficulties. Despite the progress made in recent years, the country still has a high mortality rate among children under five (77&nbsp;deaths per 1&nbsp;000&nbsp;live births in 2020), while stunted growth continues to have a devastating impact on the long-term development of human capital. The shortage of qualified healthcare professionals, particularly doctors, nurses and care assistants, has repercussions on the overall health of the population. In addition, 75&nbsp;% of girls are married before the age of 18&nbsp;and 30&nbsp;% before the age of 15&nbsp;.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niameysoir.com\/banque-mondiale-niger-un-nouveau-financement-pour-ameliorer-lacces-des-femmes-et-des-filles-aux-services-de-nutrition-et-de-sante\/\">press release<\/a>&nbsp;dated September 23, funding has been approved&nbsp;by the World Bank to enable the Nigerien government to expand the provision of better quality health services to women and children. This funding is part of a multi-phase program approach over 15&nbsp;years.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of the program approach is the&nbsp;<strong>Lafia-Iyali project. He&nbsp;<\/strong>focuses on providing women and girls with access to improved health and nutrition services, particularly in the Zinder and Maradi regions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The total budget for the first phase of the project is $125&nbsp;million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niger&#8217;s healthcare system is facing major difficulties. Despite the progress made in recent years, the country still has a high mortality rate among children under five (77&nbsp;deaths per 1&nbsp;000&nbsp;live births in 2020), while stunted growth continues to have a devastating impact on the long-term development of human capital. The shortage of qualified healthcare professionals, particularly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":987528943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[131,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653265"}],"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\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987653265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987528943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987653265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987653265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987653265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}