Short-Term Deployments To Help Strengthen Third Country Labs
In early March 2008, a Russian assessment team visited Botswana and Tanzania as part of USAID's Strategic Health Partnership Initiative, an expansion of the US-Russian Federation Presidential Bratislava Initiative on HIV/AIDS. The three-person team–comprised of USAID/Russia's Infectious Disease Advisor, the Director of the USAID-supported American International Health Alliance (AIHA), and a senior administrator from the Moscow Medical Academy—visited HIV and TB laboratory facilities in both countries and met with representatives of the Ministries of Health, U.S. and Russian Embassies, and local USAID Missions. Designed to promote the short-term deployment of Russian health experts to third countries in order to strengthen lab capacity, this part of the Initiative demonstrates how Russia and the United States can work together on global issues. Trip findings will be presented to the Initiative’s Advisory Committee in Russia, consisting of USAID, the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Russian health institutes, with the expectation that this will lead to Russian experts deploying to the target countries in the near future.
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| Russian health experts visited an HIV laboratory in Botswana as part of USAID’s Strategic Health Partnership Initiative in March 2008 |
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