{"id":248615,"date":"2026-10-30T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-launches-u-s-14-3m-pandemic-preparedness-project\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:30:17","slug":"zimbabwe-launches-u-s-14-3m-pandemic-preparedness-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-launches-u-s-14-3m-pandemic-preparedness-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Launches U.S.$14.3m Pandemic Preparedness Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Zimbabwe has launched a US$14.33 million pandemic preparedness project aimed at improving early disease detection, laboratory capacity and emergency response as the country seeks to strengthen its defences against future health threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The three-year initiative, running from 2026 to 2028 is supported by the Pandemic Fund and will leverage US$49 million in partner co-financing and US$91.8 million in government co-investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The project will be led by the government with implementation support&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610290133.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe has launched a US$14.33 million pandemic preparedness project aimed at improving early disease detection, laboratory capacity and emergency response as the country seeks to strengthen its defences against future health threats. The three-year initiative, running from 2026 to 2028 is supported by the Pandemic Fund and will leverage US$49 million in partner co-financing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,5957,257,33287,11403,6504,254,55736,4686,421],"class_list":["post-248615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-launches","tag-news","tag-pandemic","tag-preparedness","tag-project","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-14-3m","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248615","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=248615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}