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USAID’s Disaster Assistance Response Team, comprised of U.S. government experts and supported by staff at U.S. Embassy Kinshasa, is on the ground in the DRC to help end the outbreak. Together with partners, the United States has trained more than 19,200 healthcare workers on best practices to avoid infection, supported 1,680 people to conduct disease surveillance, and strengthened infection prevention and control measures in more than 360 health facilities. The United States has also provided enough food for 300 thousands people and reached more than 2 million people with.... to stop disease transmission and improve local community health. Speaking at a press roundtable in the DRC, Administrator Green cited conflict and corruption as impacting the Ebola response and emphasized that “fighting Ebola is not just a medical crisis; it is a development crisis.” |