2020年8月21日东部夏令时间下午1:45
发言人办公室
美国正在通过对外援助资金领导全球应对COVID-19。美国政府已为开发疫苗和药物研发、准备应对工作以及其他对外援助拨款205亿美元。我们的全球努力基于美国数十年来对于挽救生命的卫生健康和人道主义援助的投入，我们继续确保美国在这方面的大量资金与科研努力仍然是全世界为抗击这一致命病毒所做工作关键且协调的一部分。我们正在取得真正的成就，帮助世界各国应对COVID-19，并通过这样来保护美国。
自COVID-19疫情爆发以来，美国政府已宣布了超过16亿美元的美国国务院和美国国际发展署（USAID）紧急卫生健康、人道主义、经济和发展援助，专门用于帮助政府、国际组织和非政府组织（NGO）抗击这场大流行。这笔来自美国纳税人的资金将在120多个国家改善公共卫生教育，保护健康医疗设施，并提高实验室、疾病监测以及快速响应能力，从而挽救生命。
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FACT SHEET
OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON
AUGUST 21, 2020
The United States is leading the global response to COVID-19 with foreign assistance funding. The U.S. Government (USG) has allocated $20.5 billion for the development of vaccines and therapeutics, preparedness efforts, and other foreign assistance. Our global efforts build upon decades of U.S. investment in life-saving health and humanitarian assistance, and we continue to ensure that the substantial U.S. funding and scientific efforts remain a central and coordinated part of the worldwide effort against this deadly virus. We are achieving real results, helping nations around the world respond to COVID-19 and therein protecting the United States.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the USG has also announced more than $1.6 billion in State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) emergency health, humanitarian, economic, and development assistance aimed at helping governments, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) fight the pandemic. This funding, provided by U.S. taxpayers, will save lives by improving public health education; protecting healthcare facilities; and increasing laboratory, disease-surveillance, and rapid-response capacity in more than 120 countries.
The United States has mobilized as a nation to make this an impressive global effort. Working with the private sector, we are actively fulfilling President Trump’s commitment to provide ventilators to our partners and allies worldwide. Our foreign assistance funding to date for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic includes more than $250 million specifically for ventilators and related support.
The COVID-19 assistance to-date from the State Department and USAID includes the following:
$350 million in humanitarian assistance from the Migration and Refugee Assistance (MRA) account, provided through the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. These funds help international organizations and NGO partners address the increased vulnerability created by the pandemic of refugees and host communities as well as among migrants and other vulnerable and conflict-affected people. This includes strengthening local health responses and provision of emergency relief items to vulnerable families. The State Department has now fully committed the $350 million in MRA funds appropriated by Congress for the international COVID-19 response.
More than $238 million from the Economic Support Fund (ESF). These funds promote American foreign-policy interests by financing shorter-term mitigation efforts and addressing the second-order impacts of the pandemic in the long term, across a variety of sectors. ESF funding is also being used to provide ventilators.
This new COVID-19 foreign assistance is provided in addition to the more than $100 billion in global health funding and nearly $70 billion in overseas humanitarian assistance provided by the United States in the last decade alone.
These new amounts do not include assistance being provided by other USG Departments and Agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD).
In addition to this direct funding from the U.S. Government, our All-of-America approach is helping people around the world to confront the ongoing pandemic. Through the generosity of American private businesses, non-profit groups, charitable organizations, faith-based organizations, and individuals, Americans have now provided more than $4.9 billion in donations and assistance globally for COVID-19 response, more than any other nation.
To meet the most urgent needs, U.S. Government Departments and Agencies are coordinating efforts to prioritize foreign assistance to maximize the potential for impact. The United States is providing the following assistance through the State Department and USAID:
Africa:
Asia:
Europe and Eurasia:
Latin America and the Caribbean:
Middle East and North Africa:
Global:
For more information on the U.S. Government’s holistic funding in response to this crisis, please contact F-Press@state.gov.
For details on specific in-country response activities, please contact USAID at press@usaid.gov.
For details on MRA humanitarian assistance contributions to the COVID-19 response, please contact the State Department’s Bureau for Population, Refugees, and Migration at PRM-Press@state.gov.