America’s support for the global fight against COVID-19 includes: Donating over
386 million vaccine doses to other countries. Purchasing 1 billion vaccine doses to donate to nearly 100 developing countries. Contributing $4 billion to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in support of COVAX, the global initiative to equitably distribute safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines worldwide. Delivering essential medicines, supplies and ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 8 February, 2022 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, humanitarian assistance
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Leigh Hartman The United States and partner organizations waged a historic vaccination campaign in 2021, delivering millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses worldwide. Working with partners, the United States distributed more than 350 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to over 110 countries, supported vaccine manufacturing abroad, and rushed lifesaving assistance to hot spots around the world. President Biden ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 29 December, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Human Rights, News, U.S. Agencies | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, international cooperation, USAID, WHO
By
Leigh Hartman The United States is committed to being the world’s arsenal of vaccines. The U.S. has already
donated 300 million vaccine doses worldwide. But delivering to remote communities is no easy task. Some vaccine doses must be kept near or below freezing — even when crossing mountains in Nepal and lakes in Uganda or journeying up rivers in Peru. “The ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 22 December, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, News, U.S. Agencies | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, humanitarian assistance, USAID
By Leigh Hartman The Biden-Harris administration is working to ramp up global COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing by 1 billion doses a year to share with the world. “We’re taking another major step to bolster vaccine manufacturing both for this pandemic and to prepare for any future threats,” White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeffrey Zients said on ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 23 November, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, humanitarian assistance, international cooperation
During the Ebola epidemic in West Africa seven years ago, eight U.S. diplomats worked tirelessly for two years to save lives from the deadly virus. On October 13, the U.S. Department of State honored Ambassadors Deborah Malac, John Hoover, Alexander Laskaris, and Dr. Gary Penner, Kathleen FitzGibbon, Ervin Massinga, Sheila Paskman and Dr. Gregory Martin ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 18 October, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, U.S. Agencies | Tags: Disease prevention and control, Ebola, Health Programs, humanitarian assistance, USAID
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Michael Laff The United States and international partners are ensuring COVID-19 vaccines reach people in remote and traditionally underserved communities around the world. The United States is providing
more than 600 million safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine doses — with no political strings attached — to developing countries and economies. Most donations are through
COVAX, an international partnership designed to equitably distribute vaccine doses to protect people who are most at-risk. COVAX recently delivered 151,200 U.S.-donated ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 20 September, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Human Rights, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, Refugees
The United States’ COVID-19 vaccine donations are protecting people around the world. Governments are increasing vaccination rates as the United States continues to ship millions of vaccine doses worldwide. In July, after receiving 500,000 vaccine doses from the United States, Bhutan announced it had fully vaccinated 90% of its adult population. The United States donated ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 23 August, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control
The United States has donated more than 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to dozens of countries and is committed to vaccinating the world, President Biden said. Biden announced August 3 that U.S. shipments of vaccines surpassed 110 million and said millions more doses will ship worldwide in the coming months. Vaccinating everyone is critical ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 12 August, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Human Rights, News | Tags: Disease prevention and control, Health Programs
By Leigh Hartman U.S. researchers are adapting new vaccine technology used to fight the COVID-19 pandemic to develop vaccines against other diseases, including HIV/AIDS. Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines developed by U.S. firms, the U.S. government and international partners have proven 95% effective in preventing COVID-19 in clinical testing. Rather than use a weakened form of ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 22 July, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, HIV/AIDS, science, technology, Zika
The United States is purchasing a half a billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to donate to nearly 100 developing countries around the world through COVAX. President Biden announced the “monumental commitment by the American people” on June 10, saying the donation lays the foundation for democratic nations’ sustained efforts to rid the world of COVID-19. “We’re ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 24 June, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Human Rights, Key Officials, News, President of the United States | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, humanitarian assistance, President Biden
In April, the Biden-Harris administration pledged 60 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to other nations. Now, on May 17,
President Biden announced a donation of 20 million more. It’s part of an expanding U.S. push to end the global pandemic. The additional vaccines, produced by U.S. manufacturers Pfizer, Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson, bring to 80 million the total number ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 20 May, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, President of the United States | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, health technologies, humanitarian assistance, President Biden
Vaccines have helped control and even eradicate many deadly diseases, including polio and smallpox. And now the hunt is on for a vaccine to prevent the COVID-19 disease, which has afflicted more than 2 million people worldwide. Scientists racing toward a COVID-19 vaccine are building on America’s long-standing efforts to limit the toll of infectious ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 23 April, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, News, Science & Tech | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Ebola, malaria, Zika
By
Leigh Hartman The United States and Quad partner nations are
ramping up production of U.S.-developed vaccines in India to strengthen vaccination efforts across the Indo-Pacific. President Biden announced the vaccine partnership plan March 12 at the outset of the first leaders’ summit of the Quad, a partnership between the United States, India, Japan and Australia. We’re “launching an ambitious ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 15 March, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, international cooperation, international security, President Biden
By Lauren Monsen For more than 40 years, biochemist Katalin Karikó researched synthetic messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid), or mRNA — a genetic code. Her path was not easy. She left her native Hungary in 1985 and settled in Philadelphia with her husband and 2-year-old daughter. But while she landed teaching positions, her grant applications to ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 9 March, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, News, Science & Tech | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, innovation, science, women in the workforce
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Leigh Hartman The United States is joining international efforts to ensure COVID-19 vaccines and treatments reach countries around the world. President Biden on January 21 directed the U.S. government to join the
COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Facility . The international initiative seeks to ensure equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines and fairly distribute 2 billion doses of vaccine by the end ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 27 January, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, President of the United States | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, President Biden, WHO
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Leigh Hartman President Biden’s top priority is ridding the world of the COVID-19 pandemic. On his first full day in office, Biden issued a presidential directive making
global health security a top national security priority , as well as a
national strategy (PDF, 24.6MB) for fighting COVID-19 and preventing future pandemics. “U.S. international engagement to combat COVID-19, promote health and advance global health security is urgent ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 26 January, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, President of the United States | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, President Biden, WHO
The United States is resuming support for the
World Health Organization , which plays a vital role in fighting the global COVID-19 pandemic. President Biden announced the renewed commitment to the WHO in a
January 20 letter to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres , reversing the prior administration’s plan to leave the U.N.’s public health arm in July. “The WHO plays a crucial role in the world’s ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 21 January, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Documents, Key Officials, News, News from Washington | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, WHO
January 13 NEWS:
@HumanitarianGC – supported by
@USAID @FCDOGovUK &
@DutchMFA – is awarding $4.5M to
@SyriaCivilDef ,
@TranslatorsWB /
@hotosm /
@NeedsList4Good ,
@TranslatorsWB & Murmurate to support new innovations that transform humanitarian aid in the wake of COVID-19.
https://t.co/vEkURxjXft — USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (@USAIDSavesLives)
January 13, 2021 January 12 Here’s how the
@USAID and
@UKAidDirect funded ACCELERE! project in DRC launched “Lecture pour la vie,” ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 13 January, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: COVID-19, Disease prevention and control, Global Health, Health, humanitarian assistance
The United States and India have engaged in “unprecedented levels of cooperation to combat the coronavirus pandemic,” U.S. Under Secretary of State Stephen Biegun said October 12. Biegun’s comment came during a trip to India, where he praised the deepening U.S.-India relationship and the shared values and goals of the world’s largest democracies. Biegun pointed ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 6 January, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, health technologies, India, international cooperation
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Noelani Kirschner In the runup to its fraudulent December 6 National Assembly elections, the illegitimate Maduro regime showed how little it cares about ordinary Venezuelans, insinuating it might revoke their social benefits if they did not vote. Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed reservations about the Maduro regime threatening to take away ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 17 December, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, History, Human Rights, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, elections, food, Security, venezuela
The United States expects to begin mass distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States soon. During the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit held at the White House on December 8, President Trump said he expects the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will authorize a vaccine produced by U.S. manufacturer Pfizer in the coming days, ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 11 December, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, News from Washington, President of the United States | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, science
The United States has launched a strategy to mobilize its vast resources to support global economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. Department of State’s
Global Economic Activity and Recovery (GEAR) strategy will support this broader effort by enabling food trade and security, deploying financial tools for economic recovery, supporting U.S. exporters and investors abroad, and helping restore international transportation and ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 2 December, 2020 | Topics: Economic Affairs, Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, economic security, innovation, Trade
Blood plasma donated by COVID-19 survivors in the United States is helping develop treatments to fight the disease. Early this year, scientists identified COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) — blood plasma from people who have already cleared the virus — as a potential treatment. CCP is often rich in antibodies that when transferred to a patient ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 2 December, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health, science, technologies
On World AIDS Day, December 1, Americans will mobilize behind a plan to
eradicate HIV from the U.S. by 2030 and recommit to efforts to end it around the world. The U.S. plan — called Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America — uses scientific advances in HIV prevention, diagnoses, treatment and outbreak response by coordinating the resources of ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 1 December, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Human Rights, Key Officials, News | Tags: Disease prevention and control, family and prenatal health, Health Programs, HIV/AIDS, PEPFAR
Scientists are now testing several vaccines in clinical trials to find out if they are safe and effective in preventing COVID-19. Their goal is to help break the cycle of disease transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. “Large-scale vaccine trials are critically important,” says Lieutenant Colonel Melinda Hamer, director of the Clinical ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 25 November, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News, Science & Tech | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, science
Two U.S.-supported COVID-19 vaccine candidates appear to be highly effective at preventing COVID-19, a major step in the United States’
historic push to end the global pandemic . Moderna announced November 16 that the Phase 3 clinical trial’s independent data and safety monitoring board had found the Massachusetts-based biotechnology company’s candidate vaccine is up to 94.5% effective in clinical trials. Pfizer, based ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 19 November, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, innovation, science
A 14-year-old American student’s award-winning science project could offer insights into a potential treatment for COVID-19. Anika Chebrolu, an eighth-grader and aspiring medical researcher from Frisco, Texas, used computer modeling to pinpoint a molecule that can bind to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and inhibit its ability to infect people, according to news reports. Anika ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 18 November, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News, Science & Tech | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, innovation, science
U.S. innovators have developed an antiviral drug that can be used to treat patients hospitalized with COVID-19, part of America’s wide-ranging response to the global pandemic. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on October 22 approved Gilead Sciences’ antiviral remdesivir for adults and children older than 12 who are under hospital care for COVID-19. Remdesivir ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 5 November, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, innovation
The United States’ support for the worldwide distribution of vaccines has saved countless lives and laid the groundwork for distributing a future COVID-19 vaccine. Through international partnerships like the vaccine alliance Gavi and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 27 October, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, U.S. Agencies | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, USAID
President Trump vows to defeat COVID-19 and urges the United Nations to hold the People’s Republic of China accountable for its role in the early spread of the virus, leading to a global pandemic. In remarks to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, Trump said that
three potential COVID-19 vaccines supported by the United States are in ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 24 September, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, President of the United States | Tags: China, Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, international security
U.S. leadership in vaccine development and infectious disease treatment is vital to ongoing efforts to combat COVID-19 worldwide. U.S. research is responsible for vaccines that protect the world’s citizens from deadly infectious diseases like yellow fever, measles and polio. In addition, the U.S. continues to invest billions worldwide to combat HIV/AIDS. Lessons learned from these ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 21 September, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News, Science & Tech | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, HIV/AIDS, science
The Global Innovation Index ranks the United States as the highest-spending country on research and development. With research and development spending of more than a half-trillion dollars in a recent year, as reported by the National Science Foundation, U.S. labs have turned to the challenges posed by the new coronavirus. Private businesses do the lion’s ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 10 September, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, innovation, science, technology
The final stage of testing is underway in the United States on three potential vaccines for COVID-19, a major step toward delivering a vaccine to the world in record time. The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced August 31 that AstraZeneca was starting phase 3 clinical testing of a potential vaccine. It was one of ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 9 September, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health, science, technologies
On Labor Day, which falls on the first Monday in September in the United States, many workers will take a well-earned rest and all Americans will reflect on the importance of workers’ rights. This year, Labor Day will be an especially fitting time to honor the resilient workers who have helped America stay strong during ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 2 September, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Labor Day
The United States has allocated $20.5 billion in aid to the global COVID-19 fight, including $53 million in Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development foreign assistance funding. “The United States continues to lead the world in the fight against COVID-19,” Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo said August 5 while announcing the ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 13 August, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, humanitarian assistance, Secretary Pompeo, USAID
By
ShareAmerica America, along with the rest of the world, is working swiftly to develop a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. Many people are pinning their hopes on the development of a safe and effective vaccine for COVID-19 that can stop the spread of the virus. Through its
Operation Warp Speed initiative , the Trump administration ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 4 August, 2020 | Topics: News from Washington | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, health technologies, science
U.S. private sector helps ASEAN fight COVID-19 (July 22) U.S. businesses have donated at least $40 million to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the
fight against COVID-19 . “America’s partnership with ASEAN, now in its 43rd year, is at the heart of our vision for the Indo-Pacific,” said Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 22 July, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, humanitarian assistance, international cooperation
Tracking COVID-19 with artificial intelligence (July 22) Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a powerful tool for tracking and treating COVID-19 in the U.S. and abroad. Several U.S. institutions are developing new AI technology or using preexisting technology to monitor and treat the new coronavirus. HealthMap, an AI application run by Boston Children’s Hospital, was launched ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 22 July, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, innovation, science
20 years of aid: America’s ongoing support for Africa’s public health (July 15) Over the past 20 years, the United States has invested more than $100 billion in the health of sub-Saharan African nations. This makes the United States the largest donor in the world to sub-Saharan Africa and a
leading partner in fighting COVID-19 . The U.S. has already ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 15 July, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: COVID-19, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs
15 achievements of the President’s Malaria Initiative (July 7) Fifteen years ago, the pediatric ward at the national hospital in Kigali, Rwanda, overflowed with children suffering from malaria, the leading cause of illness and death in the country. Pediatrician Dr. Lisine Tuyisenge remembers anemic babies doubled up in beds and even sick children on ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 7 July, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Human Rights, Key Officials, News | Tags: Disease prevention and control, family and prenatal health, Health Programs, humanitarian assistance, malaria
U.S. researchers map COVID-19 cases to predict future needs (May 15) Researchers from the University of Virginia’s Biocomplexity Institute have won a $10 million, five-year computing grant from the U.S. government’s National Science Foundation in order to map cases of the new coronavirus and anticipate how communities will be affected. The institute’s researchers develop technologies ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 15 May, 2020 | Topics: Education, Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, health technologies, science, technology
Scholars from U.S. exchange program fight COVID-19 (May 13) Scholars around the world who have been part of the
State Department’s Fulbright Program are using their experience to help their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Fulbright Program, in partnership with more than 160 countries, gives students, scholars, teachers, artists and scientists of all backgrounds the opportunity to ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 13 May, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, international cooperation, professional development
U.S. sends coronavirus aid to Central and South America (May 8) The U.S. government is providing millions of dollars as well as training and supplies to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 to Central and South American countries, with a total of more than $73 million provided to the Western Hemisphere in response to the ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 8 May, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Human Rights, News, U.S. Agencies | Tags: Coronavirus, development assistance, Disease prevention and control, USAID
Delivering trustworthy health data on COVID-19 (May 7) When Americans look for data on COVID-19, the U.S. public health system delivers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gathers data, monitors shifts in disease patterns, and provides safety guidelines to prevent infection. Its experts also
collaborate with overseas colleagues to track new cases. “Accurate collection of data ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 7 May, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Human Rights, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, science
U.S. helps Pacific island countries fight COVID-19 (May 6) The United States is
providing nearly $40 million to help Pacific Island nations prevent and control COVID-19. “I’m especially proud of the
work that we’ve done in the Indo-Pacific region ,” Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo said April 29 while discussing the
U.S. COVID-19 global response . In the Pacific islands, the U.S. funding will help pay for improvements in lab preparation, infection control, and ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 6 May, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Human Rights, News, News from Washington, U.S. Agencies | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, Health Programs, social services, USAID
U.S. is the world’s largest donor to global public health (April 23) The United States is the world’s largest donor to global public health, donating billions of dollars each year to fight diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Ebola, malaria and, now, COVID-19. This commitment to global public health remains steadfast as the U.S. investigates the ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 23 April, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News, News from Washington | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control, humanitarian assistance, WHO
Georgian Professionals successfully using the training and equipment provided by the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) (March 31) Along with highly skilled medical professionals, Georgia also has chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) defense teams that have been trained and fully equipped through the U.S.
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) assistance programs. These same teams are currently using that ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 31 March, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News, Science & Tech, U.S. & Georgia, U.S. Agencies | Tags: COVID-19, Disease prevention and control, DTRA
America’s ‘citizen soldiers’ aid Coronavirus fight (March 27) America’s National Guard is on the front lines of the “whole-of-America” fight against the deadly coronavirus disease (COVID-19). These Americans demonstrate the Guard’s dual role to be prepared to respond to domestic emergencies as well as U.S. military missions abroad. A unique element of the U.S. ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 27 March, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News | Tags: Coronavirus, Disease prevention and control
U.S. company wins first-ever approval of Ebola vaccine (November 26) The U.S. pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. has won the first-ever regulatory approval of a vaccine against the Ebola virus, a major boon in the fight against the deadly disease. The European Commission’s November 10 decision granting a significant step toward full approval of ...
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By U.S. Embassy Tbilisi | 26 November, 2019 | Topics: Health Issues, News, News from Washington | Tags: Disease prevention and control, Ebola
