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Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 2:00 p.m. Delivered (virtual) Thank you, Vassilis, and thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to join the launch of this Embassy-supported project.  And I really want to congratulate you and all of your colleagues at SciFi for organizing this program, keeping it on track through the pandemic and then moving it from real life to the virtual platform and all your work jointly with our partners at Demokritos here in Athens, and at FORTH in Heraklion, both of which I’ve visited. I also want to say a huge thanks to the team from SRI, Roland and Lucien for getti...

Página Inicial | News & Events | The United States supported the reopening of health services and the creation of a protocol for health workers in the face of the COVID-19 crisis In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dominican Republic, the support and accompaniment of the United States Government was key, offering technical assistance to the Dominican Government for the development of essential measures and processes to face the pandemic and design guidelines for the reopening of health services considered non-essential. With a view to a gradual and safe reopening of th...

Página Inicial | News & Events | The United States Government donates eight ventilators in support of the fight against COVID-19 Santo Domingo, DN The United States Government, through the United States Southern Command, donated eight Hamilton T1 ventilators, which, along with the two mobile hospitals donated in September 2020, increase the Dominican government’s ability to rapidly deploy medical personnel and equipment and to care for those in need of emergency assistance during disaster response operations or health crises.  The donation, which is worth $ 200,000, is an example o...

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 As Delivered Thank you very much, Artemis. It’s wonderful to see you. We’ve missed seeing you in person for almost a year. Hopefully soon, here in Athens we’ll get together. And wonderful to see everyone. Kalimera to everyone in the United States. Kalispera to everybody here in Greece. As Artemis noted, it’s a really exciting time for the Fulbright Program and really just to be an American diplomat in Greece. This is, of course, the 75th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program in Greece. It’s the second oldest Fulbright program in the world. So you follow in the...

Home | News & Events | U.S. Government Assistance to Zimbabwe in 2020 The U.S. Government provided over $341 million in U.S. assistance to Zimbabweans in calendar year 2020.  The funds included over $200 million for health, with $163 million for PEPFAR’s HIV/AIDS programs alone, $80 million in emergency assistance, $26 million for resilience programs, and $12 million to promote agriculture economic growth.  We have provided over $3.5 billion in assistance to Zimbabwe since 1980.   Health The U.S. Government remains the largest overall bilateral donor to Zimbabwe and provides the m...