And bringing your feedback and plenty to talk about and covering it all in africa. The International Community is jazzed about the summit taking place in washington d. C. And great hash tags trending and this is africa emerging and cell phone my screen and another is africa summit but however with everything lisa there is push back and president obama is not meeting the leaders and some countries were not invited. They are talking about the summit in the United States, their own continent not good meeting. President obama is hosting the summit to discuss the pressing security, health and Development Issues facing the second largest continent in earth and turmoil in nigeria and Central African public and south sudan has a lot to talk about, the International Monetary funds projects 6. 1 Economic Growth in the region this year. Now the summit is not without controversy. As we mentioned African Leaders wont give one on one meetings with the president and a handful of african countries wer
People who have worked this the state know whats going on. Then the challenge is to turn the knowledge into something more than interesting anecdotes of history of a particular state. But to figure out how we can learn to make the whole thing better. Thank you very much, alice. You made a lot of key points about why were here. Im sure for people watching this and listening to it, its a lot to take in. I have been over my career working with many people in this room and in the country on doing studies like this of new national policies. I have never seen a challenge as big as this one. Im not a young guy. So we have, as alice said, a lot to learn. Its hard to get your hands around it. I hope the program are has been helpful. The important thing is what tom said and what alice said. This is not going to happen next week or next month. This is a change of such magnitude that it is important to be able over a long period of time to look hard at what this law does in ways that go beyond wha
Facilities that were already rudimentary are closed so we paid to trade and provide protective equipment to get those facilities back up and running safely so we dont continue the spiral of that Ebola Outbreak of other conditions not being treated right now. We learned the hard way they have very few of medical resources when they face this challenge with soviet 10 hour played right away to the United States. Senator ivan say when you talk about dr. Freedmans nomination i dont know how lee dropped the ball on this but it does not come to us. Mr. Chairman the affirmation rehab is a u. S. Nominated the end of july every run on an august this dash this meeting with him tomorrow and a bipartisan way i urge senator mcconnell the he supported the proposals sled out all why the majority leader and the whip could now work to get that done before we leave. I would hope so and would support that as i imagined the chairmen would. I would the meeting but with those Little Committee meetings to get
Kit cal that we continue to focus on rolling back this trend of disinvestment in research and development so we can ensure that our country continues to produce the kind of lifesaving, worldchanging research that we know were capable of. But i am very concerned. I just need to say this that fiscal awe state and the return of sequestration next year will continue to weaken our ability to respond to needs like this. So, dr. Fast disaster facci he talk about how the sequestration has impacted the u. S. able to respond to the ebola situation . Thank you for the question, senator. I have to tell you honestly, abeen a Significant Impact on is, as you well know i know youve been fighting for us for a long period of time. Our bug has been flat since the end of the doubling in 2003 with the twoplus percent inflationary index that over a tenyear period we lost 22 in our purchasing power. That was the left hook. He right cross what the sequestration that came in and pulled out a significant amoun
The purview of its competences and representing the International Community, must adopt the necessary decisions that would ensure the conditions needed for those infected countries to adopt and implement the technical measures and the specific policies they need to tackle the emergency. The International Community must act with the resources and institutions at its disposal, such as the case of the peace building mission. Since these three countries are part of its agenda. Theres also a need for necessary cooperation between the affected states and the United Nations and regional and sub regional organizations. And with the states and do nra agencies so as not to duplicate efforts and optimize the use of their resources. Although chile recognizes that a Peace Mission is not a Public Health operation, we should look into such as in the case of liberia, how we can adjust the work of that mission on the ground so as to afford the necessary collaboration to the authorities of those countri