The United States Government has announced a fresh commitment of $7million in health and humanitarian funding to Nigeria.
The fund is for risk communication, water and sanitation activities, infection prevention and coordination.“This assistance joins more than $5.2 billion in U.S. health assistance and more than $8.1 billion in total assistance for Nigeria over the past 20 years”, it read.The State Department and USAID are providing an initial $274million to countries, in addition to the funding already provided to bodies such as the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
This includes $100 million in emergency health assistance from USAID’s Global Health Emergency Reserve Fund and $110 million in humanitarian assistance from USAID’s International Disaster Assistance account. “The UN Refugee Agency will receive $64 million in humanitarian assistance to help address the threats posed by COVID-19 in existing humanitarian crisis situations for some of the world’s most vulnerable people”, the U.S. noted.amid the COVID-19 global crisis.