{"id":7370,"date":"2020-01-09T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T06:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7370"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:47","slug":"kenya-gets-sh41-5b-shot-in-arm-to-fight-killer-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/09\/kenya-gets-sh41-5b-shot-in-arm-to-fight-killer-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Gets Sh41.5b Shot In Arm To Fight Killer Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Frankline Sunday\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya has received Sh41.5 billion from the Global Fund to help fight tuberculosis, HIV and Aids, and malaria over the next three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The allocation, covering 2020-2022, is the highest ever for Kenya, and is part of a more than Sh1.2 trillion kitty by the Global Fund, which is meant for low-income countries bearing the highest disease burden.\u00a0It is 23 per cent higher than the allocation for the previous three years.\u201cWorld leaders came together at our replenishment and made commitments to step up the fight to end these epidemics by 2030,\u201d said Global Fund Executive Director Peter Sands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNow the real work begins. Our allocations will allow partners to expand programmes that work, and to find innovative solutions for new challenges. In addition to more money, we need better collaboration and more effective programmes.\u201dKenya has been both a donor and an implementing partner to the Global Fund since its inception and has contributed more than Sh700 million to the kitty. In the 2020-2022 funding cycle, Kenya has pledged to donate Sh600 million, the highest since 2001.\u00a0\u201cMost eligible countries have increased allocations, and every region is getting more funding overall,\u201d said Global Fund in a statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/business\/article\/2001355775\/kenya-gets-sh41-5b-shot-in-arm-to-fight-killer-diseases\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Frankline Sunday\u00a0 Kenya has received Sh41.5 billion from the Global Fund to help fight tuberculosis, HIV and Aids, and malaria over the next three years. The allocation, covering 2020-2022,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}