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news.To provide 420,000 treatment courses of Tamiflu to Pan-American Health Organization
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Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the US Department of Human Health and Services (HHS), has announced that the US will provide 420,000 treatment courses of Tamiflu to the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO). This is intended to fight the H1N1 influenza in Latin America and the Caribbean.
HHS received a request from PAHO on June 23, to partner with the US government to increase the PAHO stockpile of Tamiflu in the regional stockpile available for Latin America and the Caribbean countries.
Ms. Sebelius, said: “The US is committed to supporting and enhancing the health security in the region by reducing transmission and severity of illness. Viruses know no borders. The US recognizes that a new virus such as the H1N1 is a burden borne by all nations, and all of us have a responsibility to help support one another in the face of this challenge.”