Africa: World Bank grants for Ghana and Tanzania
Aid to fight malaria, improve nutrition and child survival
The World Bank has approved new projects to strengthen national health insurance and scale–up the fight against malaria and to improve nutrition and child survival in Ghana with a financial boost of US$40 million. It also announced an International Development Association credit of US$60 million for the Government of Tanzania to support the second phase of the health sector development project.
The bank’s grant will support the Government of Ghana in its growth and poverty reduction strategy and the new health policy which outlines a number of critical steps to improve the health of the nation.
The funds for Tanzania will support the country’s second health sector strategic plan for an additional two years, 2007–2009. Through this project there will be extra money for more efficient delivery of essential health services and staffing at district level. Reproductive and child health, malaria and HIV/AIDS services are to receive substantial funds from the World Bank.
Like Ghana, the additional funds for Tanzania have come at a time when the Government needs resources for poverty eradication and to meet millennium development goals.
For further information visit the World Bank website at: www.worldbank.org.
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