U.S. gives Nigeria $42m in COVID-19 assistance

 The United States has given almost $42 million in help to Nigeria. This consists of extra than $3.3 million for fitness assistance and $34 million in humanitarian funding for risk-communications, water and sanitation, infection-prevention, coordination, and emergency meals assistance; and extra than $4.7 million in MRA humanitarian help for prone people.

This was once contained in a factsheet launched by using the American government. It brought that on August 11, USAID passed over a donation of 200 ventilators to the Federal Government. This help joins greater than $8.1 billion in complete help for Nigeria over the previous 20 years, inclusive of greater than $5.2 billion for health.

The factsheet reads: “U.S. Government (USG) has allotted $20.5 billion for the improvement of vaccines and therapeutics, preparedness efforts, and different overseas assistance. Our international efforts construct upon many years of U.S. funding in life-saving fitness and humanitarian assistance, and we proceed to make sure that the big U.S. funding and scientific efforts continue to be a central and coordinated section of the global effort in opposition to this lethal virus. We are attaining actual results, supporting international locations round the world reply to COVID-19 and therein defending the United States.

“Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the USG has additionally introduced extra than $1.6 billion in State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) emergency health, humanitarian, economic, and improvement help aimed at assisting governments, worldwide organisations, and non-governmental firms (NGOs) combat the pandemic. This funding, furnished with the aid of U.S. taxpayers, will retailer lives through enhancing public fitness education; defending healthcare facilities; and growing laboratory, disease-surveillance, and rapid-response capability in greater than a hundred and twenty countries.

“The United States has mobilised as a country to make this an mind-blowing international effort. Working with the non-public sector, we are actively gratifying President Trump’s dedication to furnish ventilators to our companions and allies worldwide. Our overseas help funding to date for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic consists of extra than $250 million particularly for ventilators and associated support.

“The COVID-19 help to-date from the State Department and USAID consists of the following:

“More than $490 million in emergency fitness help from USAID’s Global Health Emergency Reserve Fund for Contagious Infectious-Disease Outbreaks and Global Health Programs account. These cash prioritize interventions to mitigate the pandemic and put together communities in growing nations affected by way of and at-risk of COVID-19. This consists of funding for ventilators – noticeably specialized, state-of the artwork scientific gear used in hospitals and different scientific services to assist help sufferers who are having hassle breathing. These life-saving units are compact and will provide recipient international locations flexibility in treating sufferers most critically affected by using superior COVID-19 signs and symptoms without difficulty and quickly. As an delivered benefit, the ventilators can additionally be used to deal with sufferers for different respiratory illnesses past the virus for years to come.

A complete of $908 million in humanitarian help overall, thru International Disaster Assistance and Migration and Refugee Assistance, including:

$558 million in humanitarian help from USAID’s International Disaster Assistance (IDA) account. This assistance, furnished thru USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, helps case-management and continues imperative fitness care operating; affords risk-communication and community-engagement programs; helps efforts to stop and manage infections; offers protected water and hygiene items; gives emergency meals assistance; and strengthens neighborhood ability and coordination with the aid of working with current fitness constructions and with others in the humanitarian community. These dollars prioritize populations affected by using ongoing humanitarian crises, in particular internally-displaced human beings (IDPs) and different displaced persons, due to the fact of their heightened vulnerability, the improved hazard of extreme outbreaks in camps and casual settlements, and expected disproportionate mortality in these populations. Emergency meals help addresses all affected humanitarian populations, which include refugees.

“$350 million in humanitarian help from the Migration and Refugee Assistance (MRA) account, furnished via the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. These cash assist worldwide businesses and NGO companions tackle the expanded vulnerability created via the pandemic of refugees and host communities as properly as amongst migrants and different inclined and conflict-affected people. This consists of strengthening neighborhood fitness responses and provision of emergency remedy objects to inclined families. The State Department has now completely dedicated the $350 million in MRA cash appropriated by means of Congress for the global COVID-19 response.

“More than $238 million from the Economic Support Fund (ESF). These cash promote American foreign-policy pursuits through financing shorter-term mitigation efforts and addressing the second-order influences of the pandemic in the lengthy term, throughout a range of sectors. ESF funding is additionally being used to furnish ventilators.

“This new COVID-19 overseas help is supplied in addition to the?more than $100 billion in world fitness funding and almost $70 billion in remote places humanitarian help supplied with the aid of the United States in the final decade alone.” 

 The United States has given almost $42 million in help to Nigeria. This consists of extra than $3.3 million for fitness assistance and $34 million in humanitarian funding for risk-communications, water and sanitation, infection-prevention, coordination, and emergency meals assistance; and extra than $4.7 million in MRA humanitarian help for prone people.

This was once contained in a factsheet launched by using the American government. It brought that on August 11, USAID passed over a donation of 200 ventilators to the Federal Government. This help joins greater than $8.1 billion in complete help for Nigeria over the previous 20 years, inclusive of greater than $5.2 billion for health.

The factsheet reads: “U.S. Government (USG) has allotted $20.5 billion for the improvement of vaccines and therapeutics, preparedness efforts, and different overseas assistance. Our international efforts construct upon many years of U.S. funding in life-saving fitness and humanitarian assistance, and we proceed to make sure that the big U.S. funding and scientific efforts continue to be a central and coordinated section of the global effort in opposition to this lethal virus. We are attaining actual results, supporting international locations round the world reply to COVID-19 and therein defending the United States.

“Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the USG has additionally introduced extra than $1.6 billion in State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) emergency health, humanitarian, economic, and improvement help aimed at assisting governments, worldwide organisations, and non-governmental firms (NGOs) combat the pandemic. This funding, furnished with the aid of U.S. taxpayers, will retailer lives through enhancing public fitness education; defending healthcare facilities; and growing laboratory, disease-surveillance, and rapid-response capability in greater than a hundred and twenty countries.

“The United States has mobilised as a country to make this an mind-blowing international effort. Working with the non-public sector, we are actively gratifying President Trump’s dedication to furnish ventilators to our companions and allies worldwide. Our overseas help funding to date for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic consists of extra than $250 million particularly for ventilators and associated support.

“The COVID-19 help to-date from the State Department and USAID consists of the following:

“More than $490 million in emergency fitness help from USAID’s Global Health Emergency Reserve Fund for Contagious Infectious-Disease Outbreaks and Global Health Programs account. These cash prioritize interventions to mitigate the pandemic and put together communities in growing nations affected by way of and at-risk of COVID-19. This consists of funding for ventilators – noticeably specialized, state-of the artwork scientific gear used in hospitals and different scientific services to assist help sufferers who are having hassle breathing. These life-saving units are compact and will provide recipient international locations flexibility in treating sufferers most critically affected by using superior COVID-19 signs and symptoms without difficulty and quickly. As an delivered benefit, the ventilators can additionally be used to deal with sufferers for different respiratory illnesses past the virus for years to come.

A complete of $908 million in humanitarian help overall, thru International Disaster Assistance and Migration and Refugee Assistance, including:

$558 million in humanitarian help from USAID’s International Disaster Assistance (IDA) account. This assistance, furnished thru USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, helps case-management and continues imperative fitness care operating; affords risk-communication and community-engagement programs; helps efforts to stop and manage infections; offers protected water and hygiene items; gives emergency meals assistance; and strengthens neighborhood ability and coordination with the aid of working with current fitness constructions and with others in the humanitarian community. These dollars prioritize populations affected by using ongoing humanitarian crises, in particular internally-displaced human beings (IDPs) and different displaced persons, due to the fact of their heightened vulnerability, the improved hazard of extreme outbreaks in camps and casual settlements, and expected disproportionate mortality in these populations. Emergency meals help addresses all affected humanitarian populations, which include refugees.

“$350 million in humanitarian help from the Migration and Refugee Assistance (MRA) account, furnished via the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. These cash assist worldwide businesses and NGO companions tackle the expanded vulnerability created via the pandemic of refugees and host communities as properly as amongst migrants and different inclined and conflict-affected people. This consists of strengthening neighborhood fitness responses and provision of emergency remedy objects to inclined families. The State Department has now completely dedicated the $350 million in MRA cash appropriated by means of Congress for the global COVID-19 response.

“More than $238 million from the Economic Support Fund (ESF). These cash promote American foreign-policy pursuits through financing shorter-term mitigation efforts and addressing the second-order influences of the pandemic in the lengthy term, throughout a range of sectors. ESF funding is additionally being used to furnish ventilators.

“This new COVID-19 overseas help is supplied in addition to the?more than $100 billion in world fitness funding and almost $70 billion in remote places humanitarian help supplied with the aid of the United States in the final decade alone.” 

 The United States has given almost $42 million in help to Nigeria. This consists of extra than $3.3 million for fitness assistance and $34 million in humanitarian funding for risk-communications, water and sanitation, infection-prevention, coordination, and emergency meals assistance; and extra than $4.7 million in MRA humanitarian help for prone people.

This was once contained in a factsheet launched by using the American government. It brought that on August 11, USAID passed over a donation of 200 ventilators to the Federal Government. This help joins greater than $8.1 billion in complete help for Nigeria over the previous 20 years, inclusive of greater than $5.2 billion for health.

The factsheet reads: “U.S. Government (USG) has allotted $20.5 billion for the improvement of vaccines and therapeutics, preparedness efforts, and different overseas assistance. Our international efforts construct upon many years of U.S. funding in life-saving fitness and humanitarian assistance, and we proceed to make sure that the big U.S. funding and scientific efforts continue to be a central and coordinated section of the global effort in opposition to this lethal virus. We are attaining actual results, supporting international locations round the world reply to COVID-19 and therein defending the United States.

“Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the USG has additionally introduced extra than $1.6 billion in State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) emergency health, humanitarian, economic, and improvement help aimed at assisting governments, worldwide organisations, and non-governmental firms (NGOs) combat the pandemic. This funding, furnished with the aid of U.S. taxpayers, will retailer lives through enhancing public fitness education; defending healthcare facilities; and growing laboratory, disease-surveillance, and rapid-response capability in greater than a hundred and twenty countries.

“The United States has mobilised as a country to make this an mind-blowing international effort. Working with the non-public sector, we are actively gratifying President Trump’s dedication to furnish ventilators to our companions and allies worldwide. Our overseas help funding to date for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic consists of extra than $250 million particularly for ventilators and associated support.

“The COVID-19 help to-date from the State Department and USAID consists of the following:

“More than $490 million in emergency fitness help from USAID’s Global Health Emergency Reserve Fund for Contagious Infectious-Disease Outbreaks and Global Health Programs account. These cash prioritize interventions to mitigate the pandemic and put together communities in growing nations affected by way of and at-risk of COVID-19. This consists of funding for ventilators – noticeably specialized, state-of the artwork scientific gear used in hospitals and different scientific services to assist help sufferers who are having hassle breathing. These life-saving units are compact and will provide recipient international locations flexibility in treating sufferers most critically affected by using superior COVID-19 signs and symptoms without difficulty and quickly. As an delivered benefit, the ventilators can additionally be used to deal with sufferers for different respiratory illnesses past the virus for years to come.

A complete of $908 million in humanitarian help overall, thru International Disaster Assistance and Migration and Refugee Assistance, including:

$558 million in humanitarian help from USAID’s International Disaster Assistance (IDA) account. This assistance, furnished thru USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, helps case-management and continues imperative fitness care operating; affords risk-communication and community-engagement programs; helps efforts to stop and manage infections; offers protected water and hygiene items; gives emergency meals assistance; and strengthens neighborhood ability and coordination with the aid of working with current fitness constructions and with others in the humanitarian community. These dollars prioritize populations affected by using ongoing humanitarian crises, in particular internally-displaced human beings (IDPs) and different displaced persons, due to the fact of their heightened vulnerability, the improved hazard of extreme outbreaks in camps and casual settlements, and expected disproportionate mortality in these populations. Emergency meals help addresses all affected humanitarian populations, which include refugees.

“$350 million in humanitarian help from the Migration and Refugee Assistance (MRA) account, furnished via the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. These cash assist worldwide businesses and NGO companions tackle the expanded vulnerability created via the pandemic of refugees and host communities as properly as amongst migrants and different inclined and conflict-affected people. This consists of strengthening neighborhood fitness responses and provision of emergency remedy objects to inclined families. The State Department has now completely dedicated the $350 million in MRA cash appropriated by means of Congress for the global COVID-19 response.

“More than $238 million from the Economic Support Fund (ESF). These cash promote American foreign-policy pursuits through financing shorter-term mitigation efforts and addressing the second-order influences of the pandemic in the lengthy term, throughout a range of sectors. ESF funding is additionally being used to furnish ventilators.

“This new COVID-19 overseas help is supplied in addition to the?more than $100 billion in world fitness funding and almost $70 billion in remote places humanitarian help supplied with the aid of the United States in the final decade alone.”