Australia is a stable, democratic and culturally diverse nation with a highly skilled workforce and one of the strongest performing economies in the world.
Australia will deliver more than 400,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Vietnam this week, as part of the ongoing commitment to work together with our close friend and strategic partner.
The mid-term progress report on the Australian Government’s Health Security Initiative for the Indo-Pacific region was completed in May 2021. The Initiative was launched in October 2017 with an allocation of $300 million over five years funded from the Australian aid program. Its goal is to contribute to the avoidance and containment of infectious disease threats with the potential to cause social and economic harms on a national, regional or global scale.
Samoa has received its first delivery of vaccines from Australia, with 10,000 domestically manufactured AstraZeneca doses arriving in Apia, as Australia works together with our neighbours in their response to COVID-19.
Australia stands with our partners in the Indo-Pacific as they face significant health and humanitarian challenges from COVID-19, today delivering medical supplies to India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
The Transformative Agenda for Women, Adolescents and Youth in the Pacific: Towards Zero Unmet Need for Family Planning is a four-year program (2018-2022) that aims to contribute to strengthening national government capacity in six Pacific countries.
Australia’s support for the COVID-19 vaccine roll out in the Pacific and Timor-Leste has today provided an initial delivery of 20,000 Australian-manufactured vaccines from our national stocks to Timor-Leste. We have also sent further much-needed medical supplies to support Timor-Leste’s COVID-19 response.
Australia will deliver essential medical supplies to India today as part of our initial package of support to the Indian Government’s programme for combatting the country’s current COVID-19 outbreak.
