Chinese Government provides $500,000 cash grant for acquisition of cholera vaccines to Zimbabwe in 2008

On November 27, 2008, the Chinese government signed an agreement pledging US$500,000 worth of cholera vaccines and food aid to Zimbabwe (See: 'China gives Zimbabwe US$ .5 million cholera vaccines'; 'China Pledges Vaccines'). This donation was in response to an outbreak of cholera that killed around 400 Zimbabweans in the previous weeks (See: 'China gives Zimbabwe US$ .5 million cholera vaccines').On December 23, 2008, the donation of vaccines was changed to USD $500,000 in cash intended for the Zimbabwean government to purchase the vaccines directly from suppliers after technical problems in the distribution and storage of the original vaccine donation (See: '中国向津巴布韦捐赠50万美元抗击津国内霍乱'; 'Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr. Xin Shunkang'). On this day, the donation was handed over to Zimbabwe at the Ministry of Health of Zimbabwe. The Government of China was represented by the Deputy Head of Mission in Zimbabwe, He Meng, and the Government of Zimbabwe was represented by the Minister of Health, David Parirenyatwa (See: 中国向津巴布韦捐赠50万美元抗击津国内霍乱). This project is completed. This project is captured in UNOCHA Financial Tracking Services as Flow ID #61653.

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