{"id":8179,"date":"2021-05-26T22:34:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=8179"},"modified":"2021-05-30T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T12:15:34","slug":"over-1m-women-children-in-somalia-to-benefit-from-9m-swedish-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/05\/26\/over-1m-women-children-in-somalia-to-benefit-from-9m-swedish-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 1m women &#038; children in Somalia to benefit from $9m Swedish aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong> The Swedish government has announced $9 million to support child and maternal health in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a statement from the Swedish embassy in Mogadishu, the support which is in partnership with UNICEF targets over one million children and women\u00a0 in Somalia to access improved health services and reduce child and maternal deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Children deserve to have a healthy start in life and to grow up in a safe environment where their protection rights are upheld,\u201d said Ambassador Staffan Tillander, the Swedish Ambassador to Somalia. \u201cThis funding will strengthen access to essential health and protection services and underscores Sweden\u2019s long-term commitment to improving the lives of Somali women and children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The funds will also boost the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination which is currently at 40% uptake. Somalia has since received 300,000 doses from the global Covax programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is critical that we scale up the COVID-19 vaccination campaign to reach the most vulnerable populations and frontline workers in Somalia. The fight against COVID-19 is a global one and part of this funding will help support UNICEF and WHO to speed up the vaccination effort so that the second wave of COVID-19 is contained,\u201d added the Ambassador.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UNICEF acting country representative Jester Moller hailed the contribution noting it will go a long way in improving\u00a0\u00a0 child health in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUNICEF is extremely grateful to the Government of Sweden for this generous contribution,\u201d said Jesper. \u201cEvery child has a right to health and protection. This multi-year funding provides us with the much-needed opportunity to work harder on long-term solutions and do more to keep Somali children and their families healthy and safe especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia has one of the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world recording 732 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source:\u00a0 HOL\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiiraan.com\/news4\/2021\/May\/182704\/over_1_million_women_and_children_in_somalia_to_benefit_from_9m_swedish_aid.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0 The Swedish government has announced $9 million to support child and maternal health in Somalia. According to a statement from the Swedish embassy in Mogadishu, the support which is in partnership with UNICEF targets over one million children and women\u00a0 in Somalia to access improved health services and reduce child and maternal deaths. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8185,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions\/8185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}