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Well, as you know well, there are many stereotypes about Africa. There's a lot of lumping of one country with another country, one community with another. But one of my favorite expressions is “get close.” Once you actually get out past the capital into a particular community or down sitting with a farmer, looking at how the drought is affecting, you know, that farmers yield for the moment, or talking to a farmer when they just got back from the shop where they were hoping to buy fertilizer and they can only now buy half the fertilizer they were planning on buying.

Good morning everybody. ¡Buenos dias, todos! It’s great to be with all of you today – hello to the folks in the room, to the folks online – on the final day of USAID’s second annual Hispanic Serving Institutions Conference and Career Expo, fittingly titled “Unidos: Inclusivity for a Stronger World.” 

United States Ambassador Dr. Donald Wright and the Minister of Health, Honorable Ummy Mwalimu, participated in an event to celebrate five years of impact of malaria support from the Okoa Maisha Dhibiti Malaria (“Save Lives End Malaria”) and Impact Malaria activities. They also launched two new five year $45 million activities under the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI).

Today at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) “Democracy Delivers” event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, USAID, Vodafone Foundation, and the Government of Tanzania committed to expand a maternal health emergency transportation system that is securing hospital transit for thousands of women in Tanzania.