More than six million people could die for human immune insufficiency and HIV -caused infectious disease caused by the US President Donald Trump administration stops financeing prevention and treatment programs, the world, the world, She warned the United Nations on Friday. According to Reuters report, TASR reports this.
Shortly after joining the Office, on January 20, Trump signed a regulation to suspend all foreign aid for 90 days provided by the USA for international development (USAID). His administration later granted exceptions to food and other humanitarian aid, as well as financing drugs within the multimiliad program to combat HIV/AIDS (Pepfar).
“We are really grateful for this,” said Christine Stegling, head of the UN Joint Program for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on Friday. She stressed that The US foreign aid covers 70 percent of the global AIDS program and 50 percent of the agency’s budget. She also pointed out that two -thirds of 30 million people living with HIV in the world are dependent on the US aid.
Although the exemption of frozen American aid was welcomed by Stegling, she pointed out that Many concerns and uncertainties continue to persist in the future of medical programs, As regards the application of an exception for pepfar.
“It’s a systemic shock. We are witnessing a major disruption of the provision of medical services,” She stated and warned that if the financial support for Pepfar is not approved for 2025 to 2029, the number of AIDS deaths would increase by 400 percent, which corresponds to approximately 6.3 million people. “Every penny, every reduction (financing), every interruption will have a great impact on all of us,” she added, calling on the UN Member States to intervene.
In Ethiopia, Unaids has concluded contracts with 5,000 public health employees who are financed from the US aid. All these contracts have already been testified. As well as 10,000 officials were also released, whose task was to monitor and ensure that people undergo treatment.
Stegling pointed out that a global consequence of a complete stopping of US foreign aid could be discontinuing treatment and the inability to put more people on it. However, the main concern remains a long -term impact on the prevention of new HIV infections.
