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U.S. Grants $5 Million for Cambodia’s Avian Influenza Program
Phnom Penh
September 27, 2007
The Royal Government of Cambodia and the U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), signed a bilateral agreement providing $5 million over the next year to continue efforts to combat Avian Influenza.
His Excellency Ouch Borith, Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Scot Covert, Acting USAID Mission Director, signed on behalf of their respective governments.
USAID will use the $5 million to help the Cambodian government to increase its capacity to strengthen human and animal surveillance systems; build disease outbreak response capacity; improve laboratory diagnostic capacity; and fund national Avian Influence public awareness and communications campaigns.
Other U.S. government agencies will also continue to offer their support and partnership to the Cambodian government's efforts in the area of Avian and Human Influenza. These include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and NAMRU-2.
With this $5.0 million in additional funding, U.S. government assistance to Cambodia’s health sector in 2007 will total more than $37 million.
