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<p>The UK has major health, humanitarian and extreme poverty programmes in Bangladesh.
These have re-prioritised funding and interventions to tackle the immediate health
needs and the broader social and economic impacts of COVID-19 on the poorest and most
vulnerable. To date the UK has allocated £21 million to support the Government of
Bangladesh’s Preparedness and Response Plan objectives. This includes more than £7
million for testing and treatment by the national health system and £3 million through
UNDP to reach more than 2 million of the poorest people living in urban slums. In
the Rohingya refugee camps, over £11 million has been allocated to UN and NGO partners
to prepare for COVID-19 and to provide critical humanitarian services, including testing,
isolation and treatment. DFID is collaborating with Unilever on a mass global handwashing
media campaign, which will run across Africa and Asia, including in Bangladesh.</p>
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