{"id":216333,"date":"2025-12-11T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-u-s-government-donates-essential-medical-supplies-to-the-ministry-of-health\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:00:17","slug":"botswana-u-s-government-donates-essential-medical-supplies-to-the-ministry-of-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-u-s-government-donates-essential-medical-supplies-to-the-ministry-of-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: U.S. Government Donates Essential Medical Supplies to the Ministry of Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">This donation supports a larger U.S. Government commitment totaling approximately BWP 14,076,439.00 in medical and laboratory supplies to support Botswana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;We recognize that the current shortage of essential medicines places significant stress on health facilities, health workers, and communities across the country,&#8221; said Charg\u00e9 d &#8216;Affaires Gunning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;Botswana asked, and the United States delivered! The United States will stand with the people of Botswana during this challenging time because&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512100088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This donation supports a larger U.S. Government commitment totaling approximately BWP 14,076,439.00 in medical and laboratory supplies to support Botswana. &#8220;We recognize that the current shortage of essential medicines places significant stress on health facilities, health workers, and communities across the country,&#8221; said Charg\u00e9 d &#8216;Affaires Gunning. &#8220;Botswana asked, and the United States delivered! The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,5073,6451,6427,5731,7417,6857,257,254,15863,2282],"class_list":["post-216333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-donates","tag-essential","tag-government","tag-health","tag-medical","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supplies","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216333","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=216333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}