Botswana, Jan. 26 -- The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved the Botswana Health Emergency Preparedness, Response and Resilience (HEPRR) Project, which will support the strengthening of the country's ability to withstand future pandemics, climate-related illnesses, and everyday health challenges. The project will help strengthen critical medicine supplies, accelerate detection of disease outbreaks, and make life-saving health data available in real time.The project comes at a critical moment as Botswana faces overlapping threats from severe droughts, floods, and vulnerabilities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. These shocks disrupt essential health services and risk reversing hard-won gains in human capital. The State of Publ...