The US financing for polio, HIV, malaria and nutritional programs ends around the world
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, managing director of the African population and health research center, “but we will never know because even the programs that count the dead are shortened.”
The demolished projects include HIV treatment programs that serve millions of people, the most important malaria control programs in the worst affected African countries and global efforts to extinguish polio.
Here are some of the projects that the New York Times confirmed:
A grant of 131 million US dollars to the Polio immunization program from Unicef, which paid the planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children.
A contract of 90 million US dollars with the company Chemonics for bed networks, malaria tests and treatments that would have protected 53 million people.
A project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which runs the only water source for 250,000 people in camps for displaced people in the center of the violent conflict in the east of the country.
All operating costs and 10 percent of the pharmaceutical budget of global oscic factility Main supply channel for tuberculosis medication, which made almost three million people available last year, including 300,000 children, a tuberculosis treatment.
HIV care and treatment projects of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, who delivered 350,000 people in Lesotho, Tanzania and Eswatini life -saving medication, including 10,000 children and 10,000 pregnant women who received care so that they do not transfer the virus to their babies at birth.
A project in Uganda to pursue contacts of people with Ebola, carry out surveillance and bury those who died on the virus.
A contract for the administration and distribution of medical care of 34 million US dollars in Kenya, including 2.5 million HIV treatments, 750,000 HIV tests, 500,000 malaria treatments, 6.5 million malaria tests and 315,000 antiMalaria bed nets.
Seven and eighty accommodations that took care of 33,000 women who were victims of rape and domestic violence in South Africa.
A project carried out by the FHI 360, in which the efforts of the Community Health Worker were supported to look for children in Yemen. Recently it turned out that one of five children was critical due to the country’s civil war.
Pre- and postnatal health services for 3.9 million children and 5.7 million women in Nepal.
A project conducted by Helen Keller In six countries in West Africa, which last year provided more than 35 million people with medicine to prevent and treat neglected trachoma, lymphatic fillariasis, schistosomiasis and onchocerciasis.
A project in Nigeria that treats 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women with severe and acute malnutrition. The termination means that 77 health institutions have completely ceased to treat children with severe acute malnutrition and to have 60,000 children under 5 years of age.
A project in Sudan that leads the only operational health clinics in one of the largest areas in the Kordofan region and sets all health services.
A project that serves more than 144,000 people in Bangladesh, which provided food for malnourished pregnant women and vitamin A for children.
A program that was carried out by the aid agency Path called Reach Malaria and which protected more than 20 million people in 10 countries in Africa from the illness. At the beginning of the rainy season, Malaria provided drugs.
A project carried out by Plan internationally that provided medication and other medical care, health care, treatment of malnutrition programs as well as water and sanitary facilities for 115,000 displaced persons or those affected by the conflict in northern Ethiopia.
More than 80 million US dollars for Unaids, the United Nations agency, which financed work to support countries in improving the HIV treatment, including data acquisition and watch dog programs for the delivery of services.
The Malaria initiative program of the President named Evolve, which enabled the mosquitoes in 21 countries in 21 countries, including spraying insecticides into houses (protected 12.5 million people last year) and the treatment of breeding grounds for killing larvae.
A project that offers 46,000 people in Uganda HIV and tuberculosis treatment for the treatment of Children’s Foundation in Uganda in Uganda.
Smart4TB, the main research consortium that works on prevention, diagnostics and treatment of tuberculosis.
The demographic and health surveys, a data acquisition project in 90 countries that were crucial, and sometimes the only sources of information about health and mortality from mothers and children, nutrition, reproductive health and HIV infections, among many other health indicators. The project was also the foundation of budgets and planning.
