The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop supplying HIV medicines purchased with US aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and sat in a local clinic.
This directive is part of a wider freezing on foreign aid launched last week. This includes the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a global health program launched by George W. Bush, which has the support of more than 25 million lives worldwide.
The administration had already shifted to preventing puffer from clinics, hospitals and other organizations in low -income countries to stop Piffafer’s financing.
Appointments are being canceled, and patients are being removed from the clinic, according to people who are aware of the situation who talks publicly when they are feared to take revenge. Many HIV people face obstacles to their treatment.
But most of the federal officials are also under strict orders not to communicate with external partners, which causes confusion and anxiety, according to many people, knowing about the situation.
US officials have also been told to stop providing technical support to the national health ministries.
“The partners with whom we cooperate are in shock, and they do not know what they have to do because their life -saving mission and commitment violate their commitment,” said Ashu Russell, executive director of the Advocacy Group Health Gap. Has gone. “
At the end of Sunday night, according to an email viewed by the New York Times, employees of the Disease Control and Prevention Centers immediately instructed to stop talking to the World Health Organization personnel. Gone.
They were later instructed not to be in the same meeting room – real or virtual – who are busy with staff members to participate in an email conversation.
Some people said they were very scared to contact colleagues whom they consider to be friends, even if they just say goodbye, and did not want to identify him for fear of revenge.
On Monday afternoon, officials around the world were informed that Pepper’s data system would close to the East at 6pm – almost three hours after receiving email – access to all data sets, reports and analytics tools stopped. To do
“Consumers should prefer to copy important documents and data,” said an email viewed by the Times.
This message has speculated that the program will not resume, as its future was already under control.
Some Republican senators have launched a campaign against the re -confirmation of Pifffer for five years, and alleges that the program has promoted abortion. In March, the program was renewed for one year.
Without treatment, the level of the virus will increase rapidly in people with HIV, which will rotate the immune system of the affected people and increase the difficulties that they will spread the virus to others.
One out of three pregnant women who are not treated can transfer the virus to their children.
Disruption treatment can also lead to the appearance of resistant stress that can spread all over the world.
One study estimates that if Pepper is to be over, more than 600,000 lives will be lost in South Africa only in the next decade. And that nation relies on puffer for only 20 % of its HIV budget. Some poor countries are almost completely dependent on the program.
“This is another domino in the devastating effects of harmful freezing programs,” said Jerrier Ratusen, who served as the Chief of Staff of Pepper during the Biden administration, who, during the Biden administration, Chief of Staff According to Jerrier Ratuvasin, who served as a serving.
