{"id":38903,"date":"2026-07-06T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38903"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:09:01","slug":"sadc-seeks-solutions-to-health-funding-crisis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sadc-seeks-solutions-to-health-funding-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"SADC seeks solutions to health funding crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Southern African Development Community (SADC) Health and Finance Ministers recently convened in Harare, Zimbabwe, to address the rapidly growing health financing gap amid declining donor support and increasing pressure on national health systems.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe high-level meeting focused on developing sustainable financing mechanisms to reduce reliance on external aid, strengthen domestic resource\u00a0mobilisation, and safeguard essential health services across the region.<\/div>\n<div>\nMinisters also called for the urgent\u00a0mobilisation\u00a0of regional resources to strengthen preparedness against disease outbreaks including the ongoing Ebola outbreak in\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda which has claimed more than 452 lives with a cumulative of 1480 confirmed cases in the two affected countries.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe Ministers warned that delaying investment in prevention and response systems will ultimately result in far greater human and financial costs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22910,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-38903","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Southern African Development Community","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38903","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\/38903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38904,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38903\/revisions\/38904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}