The dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), claiming that the funds are used fraudulently, Mark a before and after with devastating consequences in Asia, Latin America or Africa. In this last continent, as the executive director of UNAIDS warns, infections could multiply. “This sudden withdrawal of US financing has caused the closure of many clinics and the dismissal of thousands of health professionals. And all this means that We could suffer about 2000 new HIV infections every day”, Warns Winnie Byanyima.
More HIV and more malary in the world because of Trump’s scissors
All kinds of projects are stopped: vaccines, the fight against AIDS, against tuberculosis or malaria that would make us go back more than a decade according to the general director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom. “If the interruptions continue, we could see 15 million additional cases of malaria and 107,000 deaths only this year, which would reverse 15 years of progress”, Warns Adhamon.
Food, water and sanitation programs will also be alteredwith the risk that diseases such as cholera proliferate. The quality of life of refugees also wobbles after the American scissors to humanitarian aid programs. Cuts, which according to the coordinator of the intersectoral response to Rohingyas refugees, can lead this population to the famine. “We have seen about 300,000 refugees affected by interruptions in health services. Regarding food, the World Food Program has announced that, unless they receive 15 million dollars, they will need to reduce the food ration in April in April. We also need about 80 million dollars for the remainder of the year and 18 million dollars for essential nutrition services,” says David Bugden.
4 out of 10 dollars of world humanitarian aid they leave the United States
According to the United Nations, at least 40% of the world humanitarian aid leaves the United States and 60% of it is distributed by USAID, which has a presence in more than 60 countries and distributes about 43 thousand 800 million dollars every year. In Colombia, the risk is that the freezing causes violence to be triggered. Wilmer Serna explains that USAID cuts generate that “human personnel, social fabric and youth are severely affected by criminal groups outside the law, because those protection factors generated by United States programs come to an end.”
Many of these organizations wonder What Donald Trump wins if the United States Agency for International Development costs him less than 1% of national GDP.
