This coming week, SecAzar will lead a U.S. delegation to the DRC, Rwanda, and Uganda to learn about U.S. efforts to combat the Ebola outbreak. Read his remarks ahead of the trip:
This coming week, I will be leading a U.S. delegation to the DRC, Rwanda, and Uganda to learn about the situation on the ground and thank these governments for their efforts. I will be joined by Dr. Redfield, Dr. Fauci, Admiral Timothy Ziemer of USAID, and officials from NSC. We will not just be learning about the situation and meeting with our national and international counterparts, but also reiterating the U.S. commitment to bringing this outbreak to an end.
Unfortunately, the outbreak shows no signs of slowing—this is a highly infectious disease, occurring in one of the most remote, least developed, and most dangerous locations on earth. But it’s important for people to understand what the U.S. government has been doing, because it has been a top focus right from the start of the outbreak.
Through HHS’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, the United States recently committed $23 million in new funding to the purchase of investigational vaccines, bringing BARDA’s total investment in Ebola vaccines to $176 million and ensuring another year of manufacturing by Merck.
CDC has been working with the DRC for several decades now, and efforts to strengthen their core public health capacity to respond to infectious disease outbreaks accelerated as part of work to implement the Global Health Security Agenda. CDC personnel are directly on ground assisting the Ebola response not only in DRC, but also supporting WHO in Geneva and in neighboring countries. In a few minutes, Dr. Redfield will share more details about that ongoing work and the contributions of CDC.
Those three pieces—support for vaccines, technical cooperation, and therapeutics development—are just three pieces of a much broader response, which involves the whole of the U.S. government.
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