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The Hill: What America needs to invest to help the world reach herd immunity

April 27, 2021

In early March, more than 1.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived at a warehouse in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, a bustling city of 15 million people, in a colossal country of 100 million. Shipped to the country through COVAX, a multi-organization global initiative aimed at equitable access to vaccines, the delivery was touted as “part of the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history … part of a first wave of supplies that will continue over the next few weeks.”

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New Analysis by CARE and Booz Allen Hamilton: The Benefits of Investing in Comprehensive Global Vaccinations Far Outweigh Economic Costs of Continued Pandemic

April 27, 2021

(Washington, DC—April 27th, 2021) International poverty-fighting nonprofit CARE released a policy paper that details the economic rationale for a significant United States investment in a comprehensive global vaccination campaign. The paper, titled The Case for U.S. Investment in Global COVID-19 Vaccinations “No One Is Safe Until Everyone Is Safe,” is based on analysis done in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton, a global technology and consulting company. 

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ABC News: How to help India amid COVID-19 surge that’s devastating the country

April 26, 2021

As India faces an overwhelming surge of record-breaking COVID-19 cases and deaths, humanitarian organizations are offering ways to help the county in dire need of resources. Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), a global humanitarian agency that helps in delivering emergency relief, has been working with its India chapter to provide on-the-ground resources during the crisis.

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Crisis Response

CARE Calls on Biden Administration to Raise Refugee Admissions Cap Immediately

April 22, 2021

CARE is disheartened by the Biden administration’s announcement that the 15,000-refugee admissions cap placed by the previous administration would not be overturned in a timely manner. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was facing the highest levels of forced displacement in a generation. The ongoing pandemic has only served to exacerbate and deepen the drivers of displacement and the hardships people must endure as they are uprooted from their homes in search of safety, aid, and opportunity.

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Atlanta Journal Constitution: Opinion – COVID can’t become endemic like HIV

By Michelle Nunn · April 18, 2021

In May 1981, a small newspaper out of New York City reported on “rumors of an exotic new disease among homosexuals,” – the first story in the United States on what was, at least in sub-Saharan Africa, already becoming the AIDS epidemic. Since then, over 30 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses across the globe. After 40 years of scientific and medical effort, our response to AIDS has come a long way. We have effective treatments that reduce transmission of HIV, and people living with an undetectable viral load don’t transmit it sexually.

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DEVEX: In COVID-19 vaccine race, rollouts are sometimes an afterthought

April 18, 2021

The population in war-torn Yemen has paid a heavy price during the COVID-19 pandemic, partly due to its battered health system. “I don’t think there is a home without COVID-19 — [there are] lots of deaths,” said Rajaa Ahmad Ali Massaad, the nation’s first female anesthetist. At Aden Hospital, where she works, about 260 nurses and doctors have contracted the disease and at least three of them died, she said, adding that, “Yemen is definitely not ready for another COVID wave.”

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