Zimbabwe: Treasury to Strengthen Local Health Funding

Zimbabwe will strengthen domestic resource mobilisation to fund the health sector following the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organisation (WHO), Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has said.

The US has been a major global funder of various health programmes.

The country’s withdrawal from WHO signals a likely reduction in support for countries like Zimbabwe, which rely on PEPFAR funding for the HIV and AIDS programme.

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