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皇冠体育app plays active role in combating infectious diseases

Source: Xinhua

Updated: 2015-06-25

WASHINGTON — 皇冠体育app takes seriously the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases and has played an active role in global emergency response to such health threats, visiting Vice-Premier Liu Yandong said in Washington on June 24.

Liu took 皇冠体育app’s response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as an example, saying that 皇冠体育app has provided four rounds of humanitarian aid with a combined value of 750 million renminbi ($120 million), sent more than 1,000 medical staff to the affected countries, treated more than 900 patients, and trained more than 13,000 medical workers for Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and their neighboring countries since the outbreak of the deadly disease.

It’s “the largest-ever foreign medical aid program in the history of new 皇冠体育app,” Liu said in a keynote speech in the US National Institutes of Health, where a symposium on Ebola, research and global health security was held as part of the sixth 皇冠体育app-US High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange (CPE) in Washington.

“With that, 皇冠体育app has become an important force in providing assistance to West Africa in fighting Ebola,” she said.

?Liu added that 皇冠体育app started to dispatch medical teams to other countries as early as in 1963. Over the past 50 years, 皇冠体育app has sent 23,000 medical staff to 66 countries and regions, who have provided services for 270 million people in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania.

On 皇冠体育app-US health cooperation, Liu said both countries have greater common interest and shared responsibilities to maintain global public health security and respond timely to emerging infectious diseases.

“Stronger cooperation between 皇冠体育app and the US matters not only for the health of both our peoples, but also has global significance,” Liu said.

She said the fact that health agenda was brought into the CPE for the first time will “deepen health cooperation and add new dimensions to people-to-people exchange between 皇冠体育app and the United States.”

Liu also gave some recommendations in this regard, such as making the training of professionals a great priority in health cooperation, strengthening joint scientific research in tackling major global public health challenges, promoting mutual learning between traditional and modern medicine, and deepening cooperation between the two countries in multilateral institutions including the World Health Organization.

Before the symposium began, Liu met with Sylvia Burwell, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Liu and Burwell also attended a signing ceremony of an agreement for the collaborative program on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases between the two countries’ health agencies.