NCD alliances awarded US$335,000 grants from CSSF on NCDs and covid -19


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By Derrick Sinjela and Ashton Kelly Bunda NINETEEN 19 civil society alliances from Africa, Asia, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean and Latin America and the Caribbean, including the Zambia Non-Communicable Diseases Alliance (ZANOCODA), have been awarded grants to accelerate the response to the coronavirus pandemic through the first Civil Society Solidarity Fund on Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Coronavirus (covid -19),now in its second year. NCD Alliance President Anne Lise Ryel pegged the total 2021 Solidarity Funds at US$335,000 or competitively recipients of the grants got up to US$15,000. Said Anne Lise Ryel : “The covid -19 pandemic has placed many challenges on...