Expats & Diplomats
USAid partnership gives TB equipment to Valenzuela

The United States government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAid), and the Stop TB Partnership, donated new tools to support better tuberculosis (TB) services in the Philippines.

United States Embassy Chargé d'Affaires (CDA) ad interim Heather Variava handed over the diagnostic equipment and anti-TB medicines to the Department of Health (DoH), represented by Director Beverly Ho, and Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian at an event in Valenzuela City on November 23.

United States Embassy Chargé d’Affaires ad interim Heather Variava (leftmost) hands over the diagnostic equipment and anti-TB medicines to the Department of Health, represented by Director Beverly Ho (second from left), and Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian (second from right).