{"id":14623,"date":"2020-02-18T17:37:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T08:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/australia-slashes-pacific-aid-funding-for-health-as-region-battles-medical-crises"},"modified":"2020-02-18T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T08:37:24","slug":"australia-slashes-pacific-aid-funding-for-health-as-region-battles-medical-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14623","title":{"rendered":"Australia slashes Pacific aid funding for health as region battles medical crises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New figures show the budgets of some programs, including health, slashed in favour of more infrastructure spending<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s aid funding to health programs across the Pacific region has been slashed in the past five years, even as Pacific nations have battled health crises, including a devastating measles outbreak, polio and drug-resistant tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<p>Overall aid spending on the Pacific region has increased, with the region getting an extra $214m in foreign aid in the 2019-20 aid budget compared with 2014-15.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/18\/australia-slashes-pacific-aid-funding-for-health-as-region-battles-medical-crises\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New figures show the budgets of some programs, including health, slashed in favour of more infrastructure spendingAustralia\u2019s aid funding to health programs across the Pacific region has been slashed in the past five years, even as Pacific nations have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[247,41,43,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aid","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14624,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions\/14624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}