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The US finishes financing Polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world
Feb
“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African population and health research center, “but we will never find out because even the programs counting the dead are circumscribed.”
Completed projects include HIV treatment programs that served millions of people, the main malaria control programs in the worst African countries and global efforts to extinct polio.
Here are some of the projects confirmed by the Recent York Times have been canceled:
A subsidy of $ 131 million for the Polio UNICEF vaccination program, which he paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children.
Agreement worth $ 90 million with Chemmonics for Bed Nets, malaria tests and treatments that would protect 53 million people.
Project run by FHI 360, which supported Efforts of healthcare workers to go from door to door looking for malnourished children in Yemen. He recently discovered that one out of five children was critical of undergone because of the civil war in the country.
All operating costs and 10 percent of the budget for drugs Global Drug DepartmentThe main channel of the World Health Organization for Tuberculosis drugs, which last year provided tuberculosis to almost three million people, including 300,000 children.
HIV care and treatment projects conducted by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which provided life -saving drugs for 350,000 people in Lesotho, Tanzania and Eswatin Recipients, including 10,000 children and 10,000 pregnant women who were taking care so that they would not give the virus to their children from birth.
Project in Uganda to track the contacts of people with Ebola, conduct surveillance and bury those who died of a virus.
Management and distribution agreement of $ 34 million in Kenya, including 2.5 million monthly HIV treatments, 750,000 HIV tests, 500,000 malaria treatment, 6.5 million malaria tests and 315,000 anti -malaria.
Eighty -seven shelters who were looked after by 33,000 women who were victims of rape and domestic violence in South Africa.
The project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which runs the only source of water for 250,000 people in camps for displaced people in the center of a brutal conflict in the east of the country.
Health services before and postpartum for 3.9 million children and 5.7 million women in Nepal.
A project run by Helen Keller International in six countries in West Africa, which last year delivered over 35 million people of medicine To prevent and treatment neglected tropical diseasesSuch as Trachoma, Lymphian Filariasis, Schistosomaza and OnchoceRciasis.
AND Project in Nigeria Ensuring 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women treatment for severe and acute malnutrition. The ending means that 77 healthcare facilities have completely stopped treating children with sedate severe malnutrition, putting 60,000 children under 5 years of age on a direct risk of death.
The project in Sudan, which runs the only operational health clinics in one of the largest areas of the Cordofan region, cutting off all health services.
Servant project Over 144,000 people in Bangladesh This provided children with food for malnourished pregnant women and vitamin A.
The program run by the Path Agency Agency called REACH Malaria, which protected over 20 million people from illness. He provided children with malaria drugs at the beginning of the rainy season in 10 countries in Africa.
The project conducted by the International Plan, which provided medicines and other medical materials, healthcare, treatment of malnutrition programming as well as sanitary and sanitary equipment for 115,000 resettled or affected by conflict in northern Ethiopia.
Over $ 80 million at UNAIDS, an UN agency that financed work to lend a hand counting HIV treatment, including data collection and Watchdog programs To provide services.
President’s Malaria initiative program entitled Evolvewhich controlled mosquitoes in 21 countries by methods that include spraying insecticides in homes (protection of 12.5 million people last year) and treatment of breeding places to kill larvae.
AND Project ensuring treatment of HIV and tuberculosis 46,000 people In Uganda, led by Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation, Uganda.
Smart4tb, the Main research consortium Work on preventing, diagnostics and treatment of tuberculosis.
. Demographic and health surveysData collection project in 90 countries, which were crucial, and sometimes the only sources of information on mother and children’s health and mortality, nutrition, reproductive health and HIV infections, among many other health indicators. The project was also the basis for budgets and planning.
