Unaids said that at least one status report on the impact of the cut has been received from 55 different countries till the beginning of this week.
It includes 42 projects that are supported by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar) and 13 that receive some US support.
At the end of January, two days after President Trump’s executive order was declared a 90-day stop for all foreign aid, the state secretary released an emergency discount to resume “life-guard” humanitarian aid, including HIV treatment.
UNAIDS said a week later that there was a broad “confusion” on how the forgiveness was being implemented on the ground.
During the week of February 17 to 21, 16 reports received from UNAIDS country offices around the world show that these discounts have resumed some clinical services, such as HIV treatment and prevention of vertical transmission, in many countries, which are highly dependent on American funding.
A mother-to-B is tested for HIV in the analyzeropho region of Madagascar.
Many projects are unfit
However, it is not clear how long the funding will last Several reports that are employed either offline or are working at very low capacityThe United Nations agency said.
Other than this, Important layers of national AIDS reactions are unfit for these discountsAccording to the United Nations Agency, including major population and many HIV prevention and community -led services for adolescent girls and young women.
At the same time, according to reports received last week, data collection and analysis services have been disrupted in many countries, which note that the overall volume and quality of HIV prevention, testing and treatment services is eliminated.
In Cota de Evoire, a woman living with HIV has three bullets that she takes daily as part of antiretroviral therapy.
Increase in waiting time
Unaids said that employees working in health facilities are facing increased charge, and patients are experiencing increased waiting time to achieve lifestyle services.
Other concerns persist, from health systems related to hobbies to gender priorities.
According to the report of the UNAIDS status, “US government statements for United Nations System Organizations cannot resume us to re -introduce US -funded programs focusing on gender equality and transgender population.”
Fresh data analysis
The Status report involves more granular analysis on the huge dependence of global AIDS response on US foreign aid, extracted from a dataset managed by UNAID.
For example, more than half of HIV medicines of HIV purchased for Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Haiti, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia are purchased by the US.
According to the estimates of the Global HIV prevention coalition, before the freeze, the US government provided two -thirds of international financing for the prevention of HIV in low and medium -income countries.
The report also named 20 countries that rely the most on funding from Washington: DRC, Haiti, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, Nigeria, Rwanda, Angola, Kenya, Ukraine, Burkina Faso, Burundi, El Salavador, Zambabwe, Togo, Naple.
Services at a stagnation
According to the United Nations Agency, civil society and community -led intervention are central to abolish AIDS and maintain future profit.
People living with HIV and major population at high risk of infection play an important role in maintaining local services necessary to stay healthy, said by UNAIDS.
Nevertheless, many important services have a stop. Here are some examples:
- Mozambique: Community workers and test consultants supported by Pepfar Funding are not being paid. As a result, HIV test is unavailable in most parts of the country, enrollment of new patients is on hold and efforts have been compromised to support people living with HIV to follow their treatment.
- Tanzania: Youth temporary job termination notices have been issued by colleague teachers, community health workers or Pepfar funded by Pepfar.
- Rwanda: Community levels and convenience-based HIV-Roktham services target population at high risk of HIV infection, including teenage girls and young women, gay men and sexual workers.
- South Africa: American-funded features that support gay men, such as attaching men’s health, stay closed
- Ghana: All civil society organizations funded by Pepfar have stopped services to HIV and major population people
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Kota de Evoire on the ground
There is a symbol here how the United Nations funding freeze has already affected this 27 million West African nation, where Washington has supported more than half of the response to more than 400,000 adults and children living with AIDS.
A mother, who was holding her two years of age in the southwest quota de evoire, found that she was seropoctive during pregnancy. (file)
- The stop-work order launched a complete shutdown of services funded by the PEPFAR program, including 516 health facilities in 70 percent of the country’s health districts and 85 percent of people living with HIV on treatment (about 265,000 people) (about 265,000 people).
- More than 8,600 employees were affected, including 597 clinical activists (doctors, nurses and rights) and 3,591 community workers.
- Distribution of drugs
- The US-funded services were partially resumed on February 12, which took place after the receipt of the waves, but most of the American-funded HIV-Roktham services for high risk of infection for HIV-Roktham services, remain closed
- Other national health programs and systems are affected by freeze, including malaria and tuberculosis control programs and another service mother and child health. With the supply chain system for drugs and diagnosis
