The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged the United States to reconsider its strong cuts to global health financing, warning that the sudden detainee threatened millions of lives.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that interruptions to world HIV programs could lead to “more than 10 million additional cases of HIV and three million deaths related to HIV.”
“We ask the United States to reconsider their support for global health,” he told reporters during the night.
In addition to causing US WHO, after returning to the White House in January, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, decided to freeze virtually all foreign aid, including great assistance to improve global health.
The sudden sudden the country’s face that has traditionally given further has sent the entire humanitarian community to a tail tail.
Tedros warned that the cuts direct funds for countries through the United States Agency for International Development and US disease control and prevention centers. UU. They would have a great impact.
The battles of the years against a long line of diseases, from HIV to measles and polyomyelitis, would suffer immensely, he said.
The head of the World Health Organization has urpted the Trump administration to reconsider the strong cuts to global health financing, warning that they could endanger millions of lives. Fountain: Getty / Hajarah Nalwadda
Another 15 million cases of malaria
Tedros said: “Now there are serious interruptions in the supply of malaria diagnoses, medications and networks treated with insecticides due to unbalanced, delayed delivery or lack of financing.”
“In the last two decades, the United States has been the largest bilateral donor for the fight against malaria, helping to avoid approximately 2.2 billion cases and 12.7 million deaths.
“If the interruptions continue, we could see 15 million additional cases of malaria and 107,000 deaths only this year, reversing 15 years of progress.”
‘Three million deaths related to HIV’
For HIV, the situation was similar, Tedros said.
The arrest of almost all funds for the US Anti-VIH initiative.
“Eight countries now have substantial interruptions for antiretroviral therapy and will run out of medications in the coming months.
“HIV programs interruptions could undo 20 years of progress, which leads to more than 10 million additional cases of HIV and three million HIV -related deaths.”
Tedros also pointed out the impact on the fight against tuberculosis, warning that nine countries had already informed “acquisition failures and supply chains for tuberculosis drugs, which endangers the lives of people with TB.”
‘The actions at this time are potentially mortal’
“In the last two decades, American support for TB Services has helped save almost 80 million lives,” Tedros said, adding that “those profits are also at risk.”
At the same time, in the vaccines, he stressed that the GLOBELLA GLOB AND RUBELLA of the WHO of more than 700 laboratories, which was financed only by the United States, “faces imminent off.”
“This comes at the worst possible time when measles returns,” he said, and pointed out that measles vaccines in the last 50 years had saved almost 94 million lives.
“The actions at this time are potentially mortal,” said Kate Vaccine Chief O’Brien to journalists.
“What we are seeing now is simply to lay the foundations for hundreds of thousands of deaths that will occur annually.”
Tedros praised the USA for being “extremely generous for many years” and said he was “of course … in his rights to decide what he supports and to what extent.”
But he said: “The United States also has the responsibility of ensuring that if it withdraws direct financing for countries, it is carried out in an orderly and human manner that allows them to find alternative sources of financing.”
“If the United States decides not to restore direct financing to countries, we ask you to participate in the dialogue with the affected countries so that plans can be made for the transition from the dependence of the United States funds to more sustainable solutions, without interruptions that cost lives.”
Tedros said, regardless of whether the United States restores their financing, “other donors must intensify,” as “the countries that have been based on the financing of the United States.”
“Who has long asked all countries to progressively increase national health spending, and that is now more important than ever.”
