This money aims to improve communications, people's access to water and sanitation, and infection prevention in some of the country's major health services.
In addition to this money, the United States will also provide financial assistance to more than 60 countries on the African continent, including Mozambique, which will receive 2.8 million dollars.
According to information released on Friday by the U.S. administration, the Department of State and the U.S. development aid agency USAID approved for this purpose an initial financial envelope of 274 million dollars, in addition to the approximately 90 million dollars already allocated to various United Nations agencies.
These agencies include the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
About 100 million dollars of this comes from USAID's fund for health emergencies and 110 million dollars from the disaster relief fund.
This figure is in addition to the United States' long-term assistance to the country, which has totalled $1.48 billion over the past 20 years.
Mozambique will receive $2.8 million in emergency aid for the same purpose, which is added to the 3.8 billion dollars in medical aid and 6 billion dollars in development support spent in the country over the last two decades.
Burkina Faso (2.1 million dollars), Cameroon (1.4 million dollars), Côte d'Ivoire (1.6 million dollars), Ethiopia (1.85 million dollars), Kenya (1 million dollars), Nigeria (7 million dollars), Rwanda (1 million dollars), Senegal (1.9 million dollars), South Africa (2.77 million dollars), Tanzania (1 million dollars), Zambia (1.87 million dollars) and Zimbabwe (470 thousand dollars), Morocco (670 thousand dollars) and Tunisia (700 thousand dollars) were other countries benefiting from US funds.
In addition to support to combat the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus, the United States of America also approved humanitarian aid for the Central African Republic (3 million dollars), the Democratic Republic of Congo (6 million dollars), Libya (6 million dollars), Somalia (7 million dollars), South Sudan (8 million dollars) and Sudan (8 million dollars).
Outside Africa, 15.5 million dollars of aid was approved for Iraq and 16.8 million dollars for Syria.
"US investments under the Global Health Security Agenda, including contributions to the global response to the crisis, are designed to protect the US population by helping to minimise the spread of the disease in affected countries and to improve local and global responses to outbreaks of infectious diseases," the US administration said in a statement.
