Washington, DC...As the world continues its fight against COVID-19, other ongoing outbreaks are stark reminders of the continued and constant threat posed by infectious diseases. The global Mpox outbreak and an Ebola outbreak in Uganda are just two of the most recent examples of how the risks and impact of emerging infectious diseases are increasing daily, and how global systems remain ill-equipped to identify and contain these threats.  The Biden-Harris Administration continues to prioritize global health security as a critical component of national biodefense.  Today, the Administration announced new actions to advance global health security that accelerate implementation of the National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan for Countering Biological Threats, Enhancing Pandemic Preparedness, and Achieving Global Health Security (Strategy).  With this Strategy, the Administration has charted a bold and ambitious roadmap to protect American lives and livelihoods, and protect against infectious disease threats, whether naturally occurring, accidental, or deliberate.  Partnering with countries to stop infectious disease threats at their source — by strengthening equitable health systems in their own regions — is an effective way to protect the health of Americans and people across the world.

• Expand and strengthen bilateral partnerships with at least 25 countries to develop measurable capacity to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to epidemic and pandemic threats. This includes:
  
  • Forging 6 new and enhanced partnerships with Ghana, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, The Philippines, Zambia, and Ukraine (when the operating environment allows);
  • Strengthening longstanding partnerships with Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, and Vietnam.
• Build and expand regional partnerships in Africa, Asia, and Latin America on infectious disease surveillance and early warning systems, biosafety and biosecurity, strengthening emergency operations centers, training and supporting health workers, investing in community and national leadership for global health security, and legal preparedness. These partnerships also include the multisectoral African Partner Outbreak Response Alliance (APORA) and joint efforts between the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and Australian Defense Force.
• Leverage bilateral U.S. global health security programs alongside investments from the newly established Pandemic Fund  (formerly known as Financial Intermediary Fund) at the World Bank to achieve additional measurable results at the national, regional, and global level, and spur new resource mobilization for pandemic preparedness and response; and
• Support implementation of the third edition of the World Health Organization’s Joint External Evaluation (JEE).  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention will provide technical experts to support 10 countries’ JEEs, assisting in gap assessments and developing recommendations to address them.

• Strengthen and support the extension of the multilateral GHSA beyond 2023, as a forum for working across countries, regions, sectors (including non-governmental) to provide technical assistance and share best practices and measure and hold global partners accountable for progress.  This week, the United States joined other multi-sectoral delegations in committing to and calling for new actions during the 7th GHSA Ministerial in Seoul, Republic of Korea;
• Strengthen the new Pandemic Fund at the World Bank as a founding Board Member to deliver early impact for those countries and regions most in need, including supporting them to strengthen and achieve measurable capacity in critical areas;
• Accelerate G7 commitments made by the United States and its close allies in 2021 and 2022, including meeting milestones of the G7 Pact for Pandemic Readiness towards assisting at least 100 countries, and collaborating with Japan’s G7 Presidency to expand health security investments, bolster medical countermeasure development and delivery, and grow pandemic preparedness and response financing.  This G7 commitment matches the United States’ own 50 country target commitment, and aligns with the target of the GHSA 2024 initiative; and
• Support the planned Global Health Security Coordinating Office being established by Republic of Korea and expected to launch in 2023, including strengthening coordination and collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s new East Asia regional office.

• Commit, working with the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), to initiate and conduct a renewed external evaluation of U.S. health security and pandemic preparedness capacity by the end of 2024, in line with strong U.S. commitment to the International Health Regulations and using the new Joint External Evaluation (JEE) 3.0 Tool;
• As tasked in NSM-15, revise the U.S. Global Health Security Strategy to incorporate lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and further outline the Administration’s international strategy and support for achieving a stronger, more secure global health security architecture with equity at the center;
• Work collaboratively with Canada and Mexico under the North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS) to revise the North American Plan for Animal and Pandemic Influenza (NAPAPI) based on lesson learned from COVID-19. The three countries plan on developing and launching a new NAPAPI at the 11th NALS as a key cross-sectoral, flexible, and scalable trilateral framework for strengthening regional preparedness and response to a broader range of health security threats that includes influenza and beyond;
• Strengthen regional engagement, including establishing a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention regional office in Panama City, Panama, serving Central America and the Caribbean; and
• Establish and support, in collaboration with PAHO and the InterAmerican Development Bank, the Economic and Health Dialogue of the Americas (EHA), which aims to convene Ministries of Health, Finance, Economy, and Foreign Affairs of countries in the Western Hemisphere to jointly address the economic repercussions of COVID-19 and strengthen regional pandemic preparedness.

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Re: zero policy Posted on: 2022-11-29 12:39:57   By: Anonymous
Who is they? [Reply ]




Re: zero policy Posted on: 2022-11-29 15:01:18   By: Anonymous
O let's see WHO, WEF, FBI, DOJ, CDC, FDA [Reply ]




Re: zero policy Posted on: 2022-11-29 17:51:08   By: Anonymous
Then why isn’t it happening? [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2022-11-29 12:56:01   By: Anonymous

DC doesn't hate us....if you have millions of $$$ By the way it's no longer Monkey Pox. A certain group of people kept thinking Monkey Pox was Racist. I didn't get it but my brother who's a Democrat explained everyone thinks that Black Americans are being insulted by calling it Monkey Pox. I told him that's absurd, only a racist would think that. So I'm giving my brother credit and a hug, because he said exactly, sis. I now finally see my Party as you do and that started when Elon Musk bought Twitter and now the left is questioning Free Speech? They sure weren't questioning it during the presidential elections and the Hunter Biden laptop from Russian Disinformation. I believe President Biden is correct, our Democracy is at stake, and I wont register as a Republican, but I will register as an Independent. Besides, I like hunting from dove and quail to deer and elk and no political party will ever take my guns away. I bought them legally, I carry every day because I can and I've earned that right. Our right to bear arms is the last defense of keeping Tyranny at bay, and today I believe that our greatest threat is from the left, who says school parents are domestic Terrorist, the same party who let's hundreds of thousands of criminals in to our country at our open, southern border. [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2022-11-29 14:59:22   By: Anonymous
The problem is that you and Biden no longer want our Democratic Republic. You want a direct Democracy which is nothing more than mob rule. [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2022-11-29 17:30:39   By: Anonymous
Or more correctly, a Socialist Rule. How much money are we sending to Chinese Freedom Fighters??? None! Too much "kick back" to Biden et all to ruffle the feathers of China. [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2022-11-29 17:31:26   By: Anonymous
Or more correctly, a Socialist Rule. How much money are we sending to Chinese Freedom Fighters??? None! Too much "kick back" to Biden et all to ruffle the feathers of China. [Reply ]

Re: Posted on: 2022-11-29 14:53:44   By: Anonymous
EAT SH*T AND DIE BIDEN/HARRIS! [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2022-11-29 15:08:31   By: Anonymous
Do these health concerns include the poisoning of our youth by Mexican drug cartels and their Chinesse partners? [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2022-11-29 17:26:46   By: Anonymous
But, but there is nothing Wrong with our Southern Border......Obviously an agenda here since the Northern Border is extremelyb restrictive. [Reply ]




Re: Posted on: 2022-11-29 17:49:33   By: Anonymous
Forget your Big Orange Hatred you Fool. I dislike him too, however, his policisies worked great for our Country both Economically & I nternationally. Would I vote for him again?? Yes, if there was not any other Republican running emebracing his Policies. As a person??? Trump sucks, however, Biden & the Democratic Party Suck so much more!!! [Reply ]




Re: Who is the fool? Posted on: 2022-11-29 19:48:12   By: Anonymous
You talk about how disgusting Trump is, yet you would vote for him. You are the fool. Trump's policies only benefitted the rich. [Reply ]




Re: Who is the fool? Posted on: 2022-11-29 22:26:58   By: Anonymous
Right :). So low inflation, low prices, net energy exporter didn't benefit you at all? [Reply ]

Re: you are(you're) the fool Posted on: 2022-11-29 20:57:20   By: Anonymous
Because you repeat FauxNews lack of intelligence. [Reply ]

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