US clippings would result in 400% HIV -related deaths

The interruption of humanitarian aid that the United States financed through USAIDits international cooperation agency will have a massive impact on the fight against AIDS and can cause an increase of up to 400% of deaths related to this disease, the deputy director of the United Nations Agency on the United Nations Agency on the United Nations HIV/AIDSCharlotte Sector.

The United States provided 70% of all funds dedicated to this cause in the world, he said.

The impact of the cut was temporarily reduced by the “exception“That the United States Department of State decided to do in relation to the fight against AIDS, a measure that has been welcome but is being applied in a way”confusing”On the field, sector said.

Almost US $ 20,000 million were allocated in 2023 to the fight against AIDS through all existing channels (from international to community), 8,000 million less than the established needs, and the amount that reached the beneficiaries of 70 % came from USAID.

Sector said that, for the moment, the exceptional (and provisional measure, since the State Department has commissioned an evaluation in this regard) will allow 20 million people in the world to remain in treatment.

In addition, there are ten million seropositive who have access to a treatment, according to the most recent data.

If the funds are not restored continuously or there are no other financing routes that are at the same height, the person responsible in the agency of the UN said that “6.3 million deaths will occur in the future”

“The transport of medicines, their delivery, the work of health workers, all this has suffered an impact, and we know that the interruption of services will be more important in community health centers, which have been central to success against HIV”Said sector.

A specific case of the serious impact that this situation has on the field has been the sudden interruption in the ethiopia of the contracts of 5,000 sanitary and 10,000 employees in charge of the entry of data, since its salaries were financed with funds from the United States.

In addition to saving lives, HIV treatments constitute a means of prevention by creating a kind of shield that makes the virus much more difficult, so if fewer people receive medication, the risk of the spread of the disease will arise to increase and The advances obtained with so many efforts are lost in the last two decades.