Response at the centers for Disease Control and dr. Kahn has been in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first to have done so they draft history he hasut been fighting diseases and doing deadly wars against deadly contagion spread of factors never been a time when humans were not affected by microbes that fought against them. Our speakers speaker has had his own brushes with viruses and Infectious Diseases and contagion. For example in 1995 he worked among red cross workers in the apollo crisis and after 9 11 he was called to washington to the Senate Office building and in 2003 he was called to hong kong to quarantine victims. These are just some of the stories that dr. Kahn chronicles. As an epidemic intelligence officer, disease hunter d welll his mission for for two decades was to prepare the public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies. He has seen it all. While dr. Kahn tells us microbes will always be a problem he also writes not all epidemics
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There was testimony on the budget request and where theyre working to find more efficiencies in certain programs. This hearing is about 90 minutes. Subcommittee will come to order. Good afternoon to everybody. Thank you for being here. Really deeply appreciate our two distinguished witnesses here today to give us an inside look at the budget as it relates to africa. And where the challenges are, where funding will potentially increase. As you know, the appropriations budget that has passed the house clearly indicates that there were some differences of opinion as to how much and where we should be spending that money. And i think we have come to a consensus at least on the republican side that extraordinarily important programs like pep far, the emergency plan for aid relief, a number of refugee plans and a lot of other programs that deal with Infectious Diseases, like tuberculosis need to be funded in a very robust way in order to save lives and to mitigate dangers, especially to wome
Its one of the fastestgrowing regions in the world. Africas middle class is projected to grow to more than one billion consumers. With hundreds of millions of mobile phones and surging access to the internet, africans are beginning to leapfrog old technologies into new prosperity. The continent has achieved historic gains in health, from fighting hiv aids to making childbirth safer for women and babies. Millions have been lifted from extreme poverty. So this is extraordinary progress. And young people like you are driving so much of this progress because africa is the youngest continent. I saw the power of youth on my trip. In kenya, Richard Ruto Todosia helped build yes youth can, one of the countys most Prominent Civil Society groups, with over one million members. At the Global Entrepreneurship summit in nairobi, shadi sabeh spoke about how he started Brilliant Footsteps Academy in nigeria, which uses education to fight religious extremism and provide more opportunities for muslim y