The United States Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Ambassador Tibor P. Nagy, in a telephonic press briefing with reporters on COVID-19 in Africa and the U.S. response, speaks on African countries welcoming Chinese doctors, medical supplies to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic on the continent, U.S. assistance to the continent and others. Excerpts: […]
The United States Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Ambassador Tibor P. Nagy, in a telephonic press briefing with reporters on COVID-19 in Africa and the U.S. response, speaks on African countries welcoming Chinese doctors, medical supplies to help deal with the COVID-19 pandemic on the continent, U.S. assistance to the continent and others. Excerpts:Well, again, countries are sovereign. Countries can decide who they are to deal with and in what manners.
So again, I would say that the correct term is not defunding, it is stopping funding during the evaluation process.Yeah, thanks very much for the question. Unfortunately, I can’t give you dollars and cents as to what the specific components of that are, because the funding that we’re making available is basically across the board from A to Z. So it includes medical supplies, medical equipment, the ventilators.
So the money we’re giving now, yes, I believe it’s quite generous, but we have to also see that in the light of what we give aside from that, which also is helping African countries prepare for this kind of an emergency. Like I said also, for America it’s not just the government that gives; it’s our private sector. For example, I’ve been reading report after report of how much individual U.S.
Now, as far as how we go about selecting those four countries, I’m not going to get into the sausage making on that, but rest assured it is a very intense, deliberative process between the State Department, USAID, other U.S. Government agencies, because as you can imagine, the needs are always going to be much, much, much greater than the available resources.
Yeah, and I think I’ve touched on that before because, as I said, the United States has extensive, extensive ties across the African continent – institution to institution, country to country, university to university, lab to lab. We have U.S. personnel from CDC, from Health and Human Services, other U.S. labs, around the continent that they are undertaking very close collaboration with their African colleagues, and the research is going back and forth.
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