WEBVTT 00:01.370 --> 00:02.800 E breaking member she'll be. 00:03.330 --> 00:06.390 Doing this thing which members of the senate Appropriations committee. 00:06.840 --> 00:11.170 Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the us department 00:11.170 --> 00:13.070 state and USA I'd be. 00:13.760 --> 00:18.000 Emergency requests for assistance to combat the ongoing people epidemic. 00:19.160 --> 00:22.860 I'm pleased to be a come made by nancy them board yue-sai de 00:22.890 --> 00:26.320 assistant administrator for the bureau of democracy conflicts 00:26.370 --> 00:30.940 and humanitarian assistance was helping to lead USA ids response 00:30.940 --> 00:31.540 on the ground. 00:32.930 --> 00:35.640 Ben Jerome and I have submitted to the committee in detail the 00:35.640 --> 00:38.320 statement for the record and then the interest of time. I will 00:38.320 --> 00:40.070 briefly summarize my statement here. 00:41.500 --> 00:45.500 Ia bowl epidemic in west africa and has already resulted in over 00:45.500 --> 00:49.670 14000 people infected persons in over 5000 acts. 00:50.590 --> 00:53.880 While liberia and Sierra leone and guinea have borne the brunt 00:53.880 --> 00:55.370 did get the gonna epidemic. 00:56.020 --> 01:00.670 We have also seen cases in mali nigeria Senegal in Spain. 01:01.190 --> 01:05.420 And of course isolated cases and the United States. I like the U.S. 01:05.420 --> 01:07.910 national security implications of this epidemic. 01:09.160 --> 01:12.870 The department of state and yue-sai de are working in concert 01:12.870 --> 01:16.220 with agencies represented at this hearing today and alongside 01:16.220 --> 01:19.560 our global partners to stop the spread of the bowl a virus at 01:19.560 --> 01:20.310 its source. 01:21.070 --> 01:24.460 Estate in yue-sai de strategy to eradicate a bowl and in west 01:24.460 --> 01:26.280 africa rests upon for keller's. 01:26.930 --> 01:28.100 Controlling the epidemic. 01:28.820 --> 01:31.630 Managing the secondary consequences of the outbreak. 01:32.390 --> 01:36.110 Building coherent leadership and operations and ensuring global 01:36.110 --> 01:36.950 health security. 01:38.300 --> 01:41.800 State and yue-sai de have taken immediate action within existing 01:41.800 --> 01:44.530 resources to begin implementing. The strategy. 01:45.320 --> 01:49.110 Yue-sai de deployed a disaster assistance response team are Dart 01:49.110 --> 01:53.220 team to leave the us response on the ground in all three affected countries. 01:54.230 --> 01:58.020 Secretary kerry created any bowl up ordination unit to drive 01:58.020 --> 02:00.970 our diplomatic efforts to raise international contributions. 02:01.730 --> 02:04.610 Over one billion dollars in bilateral commitments and nearly 02:04.640 --> 02:08.330 800 million dollars in commitments to the un have already been made. 02:10.000 --> 02:13.090 As a result of these efforts alongside those of our colleagues 02:13.090 --> 02:15.680 across government. We are beginning to see results. 02:16.210 --> 02:19.570 But it is important to recognize that the epidemic is not yet 02:19.570 --> 02:22.960 controlled and that the number of cases will continue to grab. 02:23.630 --> 02:27.430 It's clear that we must intensify and scale our efforts to eradicate 02:27.430 --> 02:30.940 the epidemic and to do sell will require additional resources. 02:31.670 --> 02:35.270 The department of state and yue-sai de are jointly requesting 02:35.270 --> 02:39.030 two point nine billion dollars tea and the epidemic at its source 02:39.060 --> 02:42.770 and west African including two point one billion dollars in base 02:42.770 --> 02:47.760 funding to meet immediate needs and 792 million dollars in contingency 02:47.760 --> 02:51.520 funding to address emerging requirements as the epidemic abouts. 02:52.790 --> 02:55.550 And point three billion in these funding will be directed to 02:55.550 --> 02:59.470 the first pillar of our response strategy controlling the outbreak. 03:00.460 --> 03:03.830 These resources will support the construction that thing and 03:03.830 --> 03:07.660 operation about to 20 a bowl a treatment units and establish 03:07.690 --> 03:11.630 an stack up to a hundred and 50 community care locations and 03:11.630 --> 03:13.780 berlin hard to reach areas in the region. 03:15.140 --> 03:19.410 This funding will also be used to scale-up contact tracing training 03:19.410 --> 03:23.460 mobilize health care workers and say burial teams and replenished 03:23.460 --> 03:27.360 fido logistics and supplies including personal protective equipment. 03:28.750 --> 03:33.060 Airbase request also includes 388 million dollars to support. 03:33.060 --> 03:36.730 The second pillar of our response strategy. Mitigating second 03:36.730 --> 03:37.740 order impacts. 03:38.780 --> 03:41.600 Eagle it has decimated the health systems infrastructure within 03:41.600 --> 03:44.930 these three countries and has wreaked havoc on local economies. 03:45.620 --> 03:48.540 We are particularly concerned about food security. 03:49.390 --> 03:52.890 The U.S. they I'd be funded fan then early warning systems network 03:52.890 --> 03:57.140 has issued an alert and a major food crisis is expected to occur 03:57.170 --> 04:00.210 in 20 15 of the epidemic proceeds through march. 04:00.950 --> 04:04.460 Our funding request seeks to counter these destructive consequences 04:04.610 --> 04:07.740 which if left than Shaq will undermine our efforts to combat 04:07.740 --> 04:11.380 a bowl of at its source in could create instability in the region. 04:12.440 --> 04:15.720 I'm a surplus includes 77 million dollars to support the third 04:15.720 --> 04:18.430 pillar of our response strategy have your and leadership and 04:18.430 --> 04:22.050 operations these funds are critical to expanding the Department's 04:22.050 --> 04:25.810 medical support and evacuation capacity in the region and for 04:25.810 --> 04:29.170 supporting key diplomatic operation such a see people accord 04:29.170 --> 04:33.710 nation unit and the USA ids staff engaged up and in the oval response. 04:34.780 --> 04:37.930 By the airbase request after a for the for to click killer of 04:37.930 --> 04:41.410 the strategy ensuring global health security in west africa includes 04:41.410 --> 04:45.650 62 million dollars to support pandemic preparedness and strengthen 04:45.650 --> 04:49.280 public health systems and liberia Sierra leone and guinea and 04:49.280 --> 04:52.530 270 billion to prevent the spread of the bowl it to other bonobo 04:52.530 --> 04:55.000 nations the the global how security agenda. 04:56.050 --> 04:59.770 In some are emergency request will last eight and yue-sai de 04:59.770 --> 05:04.240 to scale apart existing efforts across all pillars of the response strategy. 05:04.760 --> 05:07.950 We're seeing some promising signs on the ground but it is clear 05:08.010 --> 05:09.850 that the epidemic is not yet controlled. 05:10.380 --> 05:13.690 These resources are imperative to eradicating me a bowl of a 05:13.690 --> 05:16.980 break at its source which is the most effective way of protecting 05:16.980 --> 05:20.990 americans here at home think easier time and I look for to your questions..