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April 14, 2021
Preface
It is in the United States’ strategic interests to ensure that the world mobilizes effectively to end the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. A proactive U.S. role is essential to secure the gains underway in the United States and ensure Americans’ health, safety, and prosperity into the future. Helping to secure the future of lower- and middle-income countries is also simply the right thing to do, on humanitarian, economic, and security grounds.
Today, the United States is quickly approaching a moment of genuine promise, when exceptionally effective vaccines, accelerated distribution at home, and an enlarged American vaccine industrial base open the door for the Biden administration to bring American leadership to urgent global vaccine challenges. The United States’ health, economic, and national security interests argue for seizing this moment, beginning with presidential leadership to explain the stakes to Americans still legitimately worried about the epidemic at
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HHS Expands Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program
WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is set to expand its Health Center COVID-19 Vaccine Program to include all HRSA-funded health centers. This will increase the total number of health centers that have been invited to join the program to 1,470 nationwide from the earlier 950.
This expansion will be made through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This move is part of President Joe Biden s National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness to ensuring that all of the nation s underserved communities and those disproportionately affected by COVID-19 are equitably vaccinated.
April 07, 2021
For boosting support to the most vulnerable economies
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has supported extending the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) by six months till December 31, 2021. This is necessary for boosting support to the most vulnerable economies, Sitharaman said in her virtual address at the Second G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting under the Italian Presidency.
The meeting on Wednesday discussed policy responses to global challenges to restore strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth.
What is DSSI
It maybe recalled that DSSI was approved in April last year and offered a temporary suspension of “official sector” or government-to-government debt payments to 73 countries. The payments covered are not forgiven but delayed, with a repayment period of five years and a one-year grace period. To receive DSSI relief, countries are required to apply to the International Monetary Fund.