In Malawi, the clinics may soon be suffering from important HIV medicine, unable to fill its supply as the Trump administration has ordered the freezing of US foreign aid. One worker said the break has stopped HIV programs organized by the US Agency for international development, a worker said that almost 14 142,000 girls and young women were affected Last year, only an agency program was taken care of.
“When you suddenly shut down these programs, I fully expect to see a significant increase in HIV infection,” said the US Aid Worker, who took retaliation. He requested fear not to be named and whose focus was on HIV in women and girls but was left. Last week, “People who are living with HIV do not have their own medicines that formally suppress them so that they do not reach it to others.”
This is just an example of how the United States holds 90 days of international aid and this week, the country’s international humanitarian and development arm is due to endeavor to end USAID women and women around the world. There have been serious consequences for girls.
On Friday, a federal judge said he would stop a midnight deadline for USAID so that he could reach his manpower to a few hundred out of more than 5000. US District Judge Carl Nicholas, an appointment to Trump, said he would enter a “very limited” temporary order.
More than half a dozen USAI workers told NBC News in an interview before the judge’s order that they were already seeing dangerous obstacles to life -saving care. In addition to maternity and children’s health, USAID is mostly focused on the prevention and treatment of HIV, malaria and tuberculosis – from diseases that are women and boys in some developing areas around the world and women and boys. Girls affect inappropriate rates. The agency is also very involved in the services that support gender -based violence.
“It is destructive to disrupt these services,” said Sarah Charles Philips, the USAID’s bureau monitoring for humanitarian aid.
Many people living with HIV cannot afford to wait, said a worker focusing on HIV efforts.
“Most importantly, if someone is living with HIV, they are on daily medicines, medicines for life. “To do this, USAID needs to be brought to the country and then from the port to the clinic.”
The White House deputy press secretary, Anna Kelly, said in a statement to NBC News that in response to a question about the implications of women and girls, NBC News said in a statement Apart from Trump, women are not a “greater lawyer”.
Kelly said, “President Trump is making sure that the taxpayers ‘financial support programs in USAID are in accordance with the United States’ national interests.” “They will reduce programs that will not be in accordance with the agenda that the American people in November gave him a mandate to implement and keep the United States to implement and keep offspring.”
According to two sources familiar with the projects, before the temporary prevention order, the organization is expected to stay hundreds from more than 5,000 foreign services officers, government employees and personal services contractors. Time jobs.
Elon Musk, the head of the new department’s performance, took the goal of USAID, and described it as a “criminal organization”. It has promoted conspiracy theories, alleging that the agency’s programs are masking biomedrium research, or its financing is in the pocket of the elite controlling the world.
Critics It has long been argued that the amount of the organization’s results is difficult to correct, the agency has provided very little of foreign aid transparency, and this is an example of useless costs. However, lawyers say the agency is an important lifeline, which often provides serious resources for childbirth, malaria prevention and education in other matters, where women and girls are the most at risk. AIDS and HIV Initiative Pepper, which is implemented by USAID, estimates that it has saved Know 25 million Since it was founded in 2003, for example. And it works instead “effectively”, lawyers say, because it is estimated at less than 1 % of the federal budget.
Women and girls are three times more likely than men and boys to contract HIV in Africa
I All the Sahara AfricaFor example, where USAID monitors services, including HIV prevention and treatment, viruses in girls and women aged 15 to 24 years older than boys and men The contract is three times higher. Without a permanent work, these gender space can only be deep, many workers fear.
The US -Aid Worker who specializes in HIV -related efforts said that although the waiver has been processed and many programs will resume in Malawi next week, but fails to calculate the discount prevention services – This means that pre -exhibitions pre -exhibited pre -exhibitions pre -exhibited the treatment, condom services, or any behaviors or educational programs will still not be ready.
“Education, economic reinforcement is the most important factors for young women and girls to reduce HIV’s sensitivity,” he said. “They are not covered under the waiver. They are definitely not happening anymore.”
Anxiety over malaria, in particular, as the rainy season begins
Ann Lin, a senior community adviser to the US -led president’s malaria move, Ann Lin, who was released during the agency’s stir, said that the contractors were let go and direct jobs on leave. , “All malaria works were stopped.” He said that in some regions that came close to the rainy season, it has caused anxiety and anxiety, as countries do not have time to develop a backup plan and pregnant women are in dire need of care. –
Lin said his move gets clinics and facilities network, medicine and more. Without their work, these facilities will likely end supply, which is especially in areas like the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the initiative will be taken. Most of the region covered. According to centers of control and prevention of diseases, Pregnant women are three times more In the same geographical area, non -offering malaria is likely to have a serious illness than women.
“Just imagine that a woman is going to her clinic and was expecting to get the net, Linn said about the clinic because she is pregnant – if it has been financed by USAID, it is not so. Is getting, “
Rose Zeligar, who also served as a technical adviser to a senior malaria on PMI, said that the move covers 27 sub -Saharan African countries, as well as organized by Asia’s McCong. There are three programs. It has been involved in precautionary treatment for 5 million pregnant women in a certain year. And last year, he prevented 14 million children from seasonal counter -drugs. Now, with pesticides, such sensitive steps, such as spraying homes, which are usually about to begin before the rainy season, have been knocked on the way. In Uganda, for example, the National Malaria Control Program has stopped pesticides, the head of the program Dr. Jimmy Opiego Said
Zeliger said about all the clinics of Africa, “A pregnant woman or a mother with her young baby who is ill is about to reach health care and will not be properly experienced, will not be treated. “” .
A former USAID official said, who requested not to disclose his name for fear of retaliation, said the geographical political implications that expand the gender gap were at risk. I West AfricaFor example, for some time the terrorist activity has been increasing while something was simultaneously in the region The lowest rates of contraceptive use And the highest rate of maternal mortality. He said that a combination of population growth and instability would only help with the risks of these terrorists.
The former official said, “Now, pulling USAID resources from the region means that there will be less, less support for peace makers at the social level who withdraw from the threat of instability and terrorism in their communities. Trying to help go. ” .
“And these matters eventually affect Americans locally,” he said.
“When women and girls do not have equal rights, they do not have the opportunity to go to school, access health care, work, their societies are worse,” the official said. “Their societies are less healthy, they are less prosperous … which is a great risk of spreading diseases that will spread all over the world, including the United States, and potentially spread.”
But during the rapidly changing developments in the federal government, Lin said it is still important to continue advocating for these services.
“We can still work,” he said. “It’s not too late.”
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