{"id":23433,"date":"2026-02-07T08:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T06:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/tanzania-allocates-6-5-million-to-strengthen-non-communicable-disease-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:14","slug":"tanzania-allocates-6-5-million-to-strengthen-non-communicable-disease-funding","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/tanzania-allocates-6-5-million-to-strengthen-non-communicable-disease-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania allocates $6.5 million to strengthen non-communicable disease funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government of Tanzania has announced an allocation of Tanzanian Shillings 15.7 billion ($6.5 million) to bolster funding for non-communicable diseases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Channel Africa spoke with Tanzanian political analyst Jerry Muro, who confirmed the announcement, highlighting the government\u2019s commitment to improving health outcomes beyond infectious diseases.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The allocation forms part of broader efforts to address rising cases of conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease, which have increasingly burdened the country\u2019s healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23434,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-23433","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Government of Tanzania has announced an allocation of Tanzanian Shillings 15.7 billion ($6.5 million)","published_date":"2026-02-07 10:17:55","news_description":"Government of Tanzania has announced an allocation of Tanzanian Shillings 15.7 billion ($6.5 million)","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26402,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23433\/revisions\/26402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}