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Am very happy that Mr. Qiushi, a Chinese citizen journalist, can regain his freedom with the efforts of all parties. Hope he can reflect to the international community the real situation he personally experienced during COVID-19 in Wuhan. In the days to come, I hope he can continue to make more fair and just voices for the disadvantaged groups and exposing the truth of ccp tyranny while ensuring his own safety..
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Subject: Expansion of Quarantine Areas for the Imported Fire Ant (Solenopis invicta Buren, S. richteri Forel, and hybrids of these species) in North Carolina and Tennessee
To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials
Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is issuing a Federal Order that expands the existing imported fire ant (IFA) quarantine areas in North Carolina and Tennessee. APHIS is taking this action to prevent the interstate spread of IFA.
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APHIS is taking these actions based upon verification from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture’s Division of Consumer and Industry Services that IFA is present and established in the areas listed.
For additional information on the Federal IFA regulatory program, please contact the IFA National Policy Manager, Herbert Bolton, at (301) 851-3594 or herbert.bolton@usda.gov.
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President Biden recommits to oxygen efforts at COVID Summit
Last month, President Biden convened partners for the Global COVID-19 Summit: Ending the Pandemic and Building Back Better, a virtual summit on the margins of the UN General Assembly. Included in his agenda to conquer COVID-19 was “Save Lives Now,” which will work to “solve the oxygen crisis and [make] tests, therapeutics, and personal protective equipment (PPE) widely available.” In her summit remarks, USAID Administrator Samantha Power described increasing local access to oxygen in low- and middle-income countries as “perhaps the most important, life-saving single step we can take” besides increasing access to vaccines.
To achieve goals for increasing access to oxygen, USAID plans to provide $50 million to expand access, with a focus on bulk liquid oxygen. The agency will work to leverage investments by building a coalition with governments, foundations, NGOs, and private sector partners to coordinate global investment in oxygen access.
We are proud of the work CII’s Lead Market Access Advisor Nikki Tyler has done, alongside our colleagues throughout the agency, to ensure that more people around the world have access to oxygen!
INNOVATIONEvery Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace shown to improve lives, effectively raise capital
CII has been a founding partner/advisor for the Every Woman Every Child Innovation Marketplace (EWEC-IM), which recently completed its five year project duration. Over the course of the past five years, more than 29 companies and organizations supported by the platform have mobilized capital as a direct or indirect result of the activities of the EWEC-IM. Those portfolio companies successfully mobilized $46M in grants, equity, and debt financing. The initial data has shown that the portfolio companies reached over 24M beneficiaries, resulting in more than 18,000 lives saved and 625,000 lives improved over the course of the project’s duration.
Merrick Schaefer delivers ‘Digital Health: Planning National Systems’ course for MOHs
Senior Advisor for Digital Health, Merrick Schaefer delivered in-depth training on the use of digital technologies to support country-based global health programs. The course, ‘Digital Health: Planning National Health Systems’, was co-developed by Schaefer and he has already delivered it to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) digital health team and over 80 Ministry of Health staff. The course is designed to empower ministry leadership with the technical concepts and planning tools necessary to effectively lead national digital health stakeholders. The curriculum features critical health concepts, existing best practices, and pragmatic methods, all framed according to the national planning cycle that Ministry of Health officials manage.
MARKET ACCESSProject Last Mile partnership with Coca-Cola and others contributing to COVID response
Two articles recently published by USAID and the Evening Standard highlight the work of Project Last Mile (PLM) in contributing to the COVID response. In South Africa PLM worked to catalyze production of PPE, both to protect people from the virus and to provide jobs in the country. The result was over 1.9 million units of PPE and nearly 500 jobs created at six small and medium-sized suppliers. In Eswatini, PLM reviewed 95 percent of the country’s cold-chain storage facilities to reduce wasted vaccines. They did this work in addition to utilizing existing relationships with small, independent delivery partners to get vaccines to remote areas and partnering with the private sector to vaccinate during non-working hours.
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Subject: Expansion of Quarantine Areas for the Imported Fire Ant (Solenopis invicta Buren, S. richteri Forel, and hybrids of these species) in North Carolina and Tennessee
To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials
Effective immediately, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is issuing a Federal Order that expands the existing imported fire ant (IFA) quarantine areas in North Carolina and Tennessee. APHIS is taking this action to prevent the interstate spread of IFA.
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APHIS is taking these actions based upon verification from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the Tennessee Department of Agriculture’s Division of Consumer and Industry Services that IFA is present and established in the areas listed.
For additional information on the Federal IFA regulatory program, please contact the IFA National Policy Manager, Herbert Bolton, at (301) 851-3594 or herbert.bolton@usda.gov.
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