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DT 8 / 2020

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Special report

COVID19 support scheme faces massive funding crisis, calls for USD 10 billion more to prevent collapse of health systems

The WHO-led scheme for ensuring global access to new COVID19 medicines and vaccines will increase its fund-raising target by USD 10 billion to strengthen health systems in poor countries, Development Today has learned. Pledges have so far been skewed toward vaccines. Experts fear that without this added support, weak health systems in developing countries will be crushed under the weight of the pandemic.

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News October 25, 2020

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Business October 20, 2020

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Norfund sells SN Power to Scatec Solar, cashes in NOK 6 billion

Norway’s aid-funded investor Norfund is selling its hydropower firm SN Power to the solar energy company...

Business October 16, 2020

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How Sida shelters humanitarian aid from politics: ‘we are more and more lonely as a donor’

As humanitarian assistance becomes increasingly politicised, Sida works actively to shelter its emergency...

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