
ADB greenlights $370m grant to support health services in Afghanistan
The funding will benefit 17 provinces.
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $370m grant to sustain the delivery of essential health services in 17 provinces across Afghanistan.
The funding will support maternal, neonatal, and child health and nutrition programmes, the supply of essential medicines, and childhood immunisations.
It will also provide inputs to produce staple crops and non-staple cash crops, orchard products, as well as livestock to at least 161,000 households.