{"id":197770,"date":"2025-05-09T23:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-united-states-to-cut-50-million-in-medications-and-medical-supplies-support\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T23:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:57:22","slug":"zambia-united-states-to-cut-50-million-in-medications-and-medical-supplies-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-united-states-to-cut-50-million-in-medications-and-medical-supplies-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: United States to Cut $50 Million in Medications and Medical Supplies Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Remarks by U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Michael Gonzales<br \/>Press Conference at U.S. Embassy<br \/>United States to Cut $50 Million in Medications &amp; Medical Supplies Support<br \/>Following Inadequate Response to Systematic Theft<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Good morning everyone and thank you for joining me here today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"89\">It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the United States is cutting $50 million \u2013 that\u2019s 1.4 billion kwacha \u2013 in annual aid provided to Zambia for medications and medical supplies. \u00a0For more than a year the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505090257.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarks by U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Michael GonzalesPress Conference at U.S. EmbassyUnited States to Cut $50 Million in Medications &amp; Medical Supplies SupportFollowing Inadequate Response to Systematic Theft Good morning everyone and thank you for joining me here today. It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the United States is cutting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661369:615d464cb8ba4f1992e74042547ed33b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,8021,7417,44504,5118,257,254,6484,15863,6096,7866,4709,881],"class_list":["post-197770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cut","tag-medical","tag-medications","tag-million","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-states","tag-supplies","tag-support","tag-united","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661369:615d464cb8ba4f1992e74042547ed33b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}