Zimbabwe: $82m Boost for Health Sector

10 November 2017

The United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) has availed an $82,1 million grant to the Government in support of the resilient health system programme aimed at boosting women and children's heath and fighting diseases. A huge chunk of the grant will finance programmes under the Health Development Fund such as improvement of sexual, and reproductive health, and nutritional services for women, adolescents and children, while $2,2 million will go towards strengthening the country's capacity to respond to disease outbreaks.

Key components of the programme include increasing the number of children receiving Vitamin A supplements from current 624 248 to over one million, reducing the percentage of adolescents with unmet need of family planning from 13 to nine percent and increasing the number of children with severe acute malnutrition that are being cured and discharged from 62 to 70 percent.

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