The decision of the presidential administration Donald Trump to suspend US external assistance “significantly violated” the proposal of HIV treatment in eight countries, which can soon be left without these drugs.
In particular, we are talking about Ukraine, warned in the World Health Organization (WHO).
Haiti, Kenya, Lesotho, South Sudan, Burkina-Faso, Mali, Nigeria and Ukraine can exhaust their shares for the treatment of HIV in the coming months. This can lead to more than ten million additional cases of HIV infection and three million deaths associated with HIV. About this in a conversation with Reuters said that the Director General of Tedros Adhan Hebraesus.
Recall that after joining the post on January 20, Trump removed USAID, the US agency for international assistance, for 90 days. Later, the US State Department said that freezing of assistance does not concern the presidential Plan of AIDS (Pepfar), the leading world initiative for HIV, humanitarian assistance aimed at saving life.
Donations in the United States make up most of the global financing of the UN program, which works in 70 countries and is making global efforts to eliminate AIDS as a threat to public healthcare by 2030.
The Trump administration claims that she considers all foreign assistance programs to check if they correspond to America’s policy.
Source: Racurs
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