{"id":94491,"date":"2020-04-21T08:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T08:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/u-s-to-provide-afghanistan-with-over-18-million-to-fight-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2020-04-21T08:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T08:43:04","slug":"u-s-to-provide-afghanistan-with-over-18-million-to-fight-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/u-s-to-provide-afghanistan-with-over-18-million-to-fight-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to provide Afghanistan with over $18 million to fight COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/Pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/april\/21\/Corona%20p.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The U.S. has announced to provide Afghanistan with more than $18 million to fight against the COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>It a statement, the State Department said more than $18 million in total U.S. assistance for Afghanistan&rsquo;s COVID-19 response includes more than $5.6 million in health and IDA humanitarian assistance to support detection and treatment of COVID-19 for internally displaced persons (IDPs), and nearly $2.4 million in MRA humanitarian assistance for Afghan returnees.<\/p>\n<p>&#39;This also includes $10 million in existing resources the United States Has redirected to support the United Nations Emergency Response Plan for COVID-19.&nbsp;&nbsp;This support will include surveillance, lab improvements, case management, infection prevention and control, community engagement, and technical assistance to the Government of Afghanistan&#39;, it said.<\/p>\n<p>First vice president, Amrullah Saleh has thanked the U.S. for the support. &#39;We remain grateful &amp; hope this assistance doesn&#39;t go through NGOs who will spend 60 percent of it for furniture, meetings, power point presentation, desk studies &amp; consultancy fees&#39;, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/share\/clipdata_200421_181833_588.sdoc--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The U.S. has announced to provide Afghanistan with more than $18 million to fight against the COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}