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The Unit­ed States has com­mit­ted US$6 mil­lion to sup­port Trinidad and To­ba­go’s health sys­tem over the next two years.

The fund­ing will be ad­min­is­tered by the Min­istry of Health to pre­vent, de­tect and con­tain pub­lic health threats in both coun­tries.

U.S. Chargé d’Af­faires Char­lie J. Fran­ta III and U.S. Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion Caribbean Of­fice Coun­try Di­rec­tor Dr Paul Young an­nounced the fund­ing dur­ing a meet­ing with Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe ear­li­er this month.