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The United States Delivers COVID-19 Vaccine Doses to Zambia

COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

Since July, 2021 the United States has shared 6,533,910 safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine doses with the people of Zambia – free of cost. This includes 4,215,510 Pfizer and 2,318,400 J&J doses. Of the 6,533,910 vaccine doses, 90% were donated in partnership with COVAX and 10% were donated through AVAT.

President Biden committed the United States to be the world’s arsenal for vaccines, leading an international and coordinated vaccination effort, and announced that the United States will provide 1.2 billion doses of safe, effective vaccines – free of cost – to meet global needs and save lives now. The United States is working with other governments, global initiatives including COVAX and the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT), and other partners to get COVID-19 vaccines to where they are needed most.

Learn more about our work Delivering Vaccines and on COVID-19 Recovery.

Highlights

January 18, 2023

The United States Releases Signed Memorandum of Understanding with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia to Strengthen Electric Vehicle Battery Value Chain

January 13, 2023

Special Envoy for Global Food Security Fowler’s Travel to Zambia, Malawi, and the United Kingdom

December 14, 2022

Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Southern African Development Community Organ Troika Members

December 13, 2022

Secretary Blinken and Democratic Republic of the Congo President Félix Tshisekedi Before Their Meeting

December 13, 2022

Secretary Blinken At the Conservation, Climate Adaptation, and Just Energy Transition Forum

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U.S. Relationship

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U.S.-Zambia Relations

The U.S. established diplomatic relations with Zambia in 1964, following its independence from the United Kingdom. The country's primary challenges are to improve governance issues; promote broad-based, inclusive economic growth; maintain adherence to democratic and constitutional principles; reduce its debt; create employment; and develop its human capital. The U.S. and Zambia enjoy cordial relations. U.S. goals in Zambia include reducing widespread poverty and building and sustaining a democratic, well-governed country that contributes positively to regional stability. The U.S. works closely with the Zambian government to defeat the HIV/AIDS pandemic that is widespread but stabilizing in Zambia, to promote economic growth and development, and to bring about political reform by promoting democratic principles and a responsible and responsive government.

U.S. Assistance to Zambia

U.S. assistance to Zambia is robust, totaling close to $500 million annually. U.S. assistance fights HIV/AIDS; expands and improves the quality of health and education opportunities; strengthens democratic and accountable governance; provides clean water and improves sanitation; helps create trade and business development opportunities; and builds Zambian capacity to promote regional peace, security, and stability.

Bilateral Economic Relations

Zambia is eligible for preferential trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act. U.S. exports to Zambia include vehicles, machinery, rubber, and electrical machinery. U.S. imports from Zambia include copper, cobalt, precious stones (emeralds), and food stuffs (coffee, tea, honey, and spices). The U.S. has signed a trade and investment framework agreement with the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, of which Zambia is a member.

Zambia Flag: green field with a panel of three vertical bands of red (hoist side), black, and orange below a soaring orange eagle, on the outer edge of the flag; green stands for the country's natural resources and vegetation, red symbolizes the struggle for freedom, black the people of Zambia, and orange the country's mineral wealth; the eagle represents the people's ability to rise above the nation's problems [CIA World Fact Book]

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