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    2010 World Cup Vuvuzela

    A vuvuzela is a type of horn popular at sporting events in South Africa. During the 2010 World Cup for Football/Soccer, which was held in South Africa, the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria distributed vuvuzelas like this one with the goal of raising awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country and helping…

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    Tribal Hat and Sash

    Through a partnership between the Tokbet Community Development Association and U.S. Mission Nigeria’s Small Grants Program, a remote Nigerian community received a health clinic to provide vital services to residents. The Tokbet Community Clinic provides maternity care, prenatal checkups, HIV/AIDS testing, counseling, and treatment. At the opening ceremony for the clinic, Tokbet…

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    USAID Personal Hygiene Kit Items

    Items from personal hygiene kit, c. 2014. A “personal hygiene kit” is a box of basic hygiene supplies, utilized by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to help prevent outbreaks of communicable illness in disaster areas across the globe.

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    USAID Chlorine Dispenser

    Reliable access to safe water saves lives, improves livelihoods, and makes communities more resilient. This is an example of a chlorine dispenser from a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) program called “Dispensers for Safe Water”. The program provides access to safe water to four million people living in rural communities in…

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    Wuhan Evacuation Team Patch

    As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in 2020, the State Department was on the frontline of working to bring over 100,000 Americans home as cities and countries across the globe locked down and normal travel options disappeared. This patch was created by one of the evacuation teams out of a shared sense of…

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    Outbreak in West Africa

    Outbreak in West Africa In December 2013, a fruit bat infected a toddler in Guinea with Ebola. Within seven months, the virus had reached the…

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    HIV/AIDs Panel: A Humanitarian and a National Security Issue

    February 22, 2019

    In Person

    The National Museum of American Diplomacy was pleased to host a panel discussion that explored how U.S. Government has approached HIV/AIDS as both a humanitarian and a national security issue for more than 30 years.

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    COVID-19 Repatriation: Bringing Americans Home from the Western Hemisphere

    When Peru’s commercial airport closed to all travel on March 23, the U.S. Embassy in Lima swung into action, engaging with the Peruvian Government to repatriate more than 7,000 American citizens from across the country amidst closed borders and strict Peruvian quarantine and curfew measures.