The international health group has launched a program that has led Donald Trump to dismantle foreign aid in the United States and that diversity, equity and inclusion once provided healthcare to millions of women and girls around the world. It warns an order that prohibits destruction.
A 90-day stop order imposed by the State Department to “examine” contracts to comply with the new administration’s order, many clinics operating on shoemarked budgets have reopened He said it means there’s nothing to do. To HIV treatment for removal of intrauterine contraceptives.
“The whole ecosystem is falling apart,” says Dr. Carol Sekinpi, a Ugandan physician and senior director of Africa, providing family planning services around the world, and is expected to lose $14 million in the UK. has MSI Reproductive Choices, a nonprofit based in the company. With US funding.
“In 90 days, we’re going to rebuild from the ground… because the massive damage done to the ecosystem was done for reproductive and rights.”
The suspension is also mistrustful, as the woman planned health care solely to find the clinic closed.
The United States provides $8.2 billion annually for foreign humanitarian assistance, which is about 1% of the total US spending. The money supports programs that are exposed to the lives of tens of millions of people worldwide, particularly in countries with weak health systems, or in strategically important countries such as Sudan, Uganda and Ukraine.
For nearly a decade, Congress has allocated $6.075 million in foreign aid for family planning, and has provided funding to estimate that experts will provide modern contraceptives to 47 million women and girls .
However, when Trump took office, he ordered all US foreign aid that freezes for 90 days as the contract was “reviewed” and stopped working on inclusion programs (often called DEI). I ordered.
The State Department later issued an exemption, saying that “life-saving” humanitarian aid was not subject to suspension, but the president’s orders of staffing reductions and disruption have largely been seen in even basic programs such as food aid. This means there was a delay. The USAID Inspector’s office has identified more than $489 million in food aid at risk of corruption as they sat in ports and warehouses around the world.
The inspector in charge of the report was fired the day after the Trump administration’s release. Trump fired 17 other inspectors after he took office. Inspectors must legally specify a 30-day advance notice and a detailed list of reasons for their attack.
“Can you imagine a woman who’s asking for help and the clinic is closed?” said Elisha Dan Jojou, president and CEO of Global Health Council. “You can’t get medical treatment, you can’t get care because America has decided on the whim that you are worthless. That’s immeasurable.”
Many suspensions of foreign aid funds and Trump’s executive orders are now part of a trial that seeks to halt action. This is part of what jurists call the “constitutional crisis” in the United States, as the president dismantled a program established and funded by Congress. – A branch of the government with the power of a wallet.
As these issues move through courts, fundraising orders will be made available to programs around the world, including international sexual and reproductive health workers, who are inevitably coordinated to women, girls and sexual minorities. “Chaos” is sowing.
“We’re really in the fight for our lives, for everyone’s lives,” Dan Joejo said. “We must do everything we can to declare this freezing of foreign aid a violation and to get everything we can rescue from USAID. People get sick, people is almost dying.”
Dunn-Georgiou said that exemptions fail to effectively resume programs due to the impossible process of converting exemptions into money that can be used to support programs using long-term, sometimes impossible exemptions. I did.
“If we hear from the US government, ‘Well, there’s a waiver, we don’t understand what the problem is,” Dunn-Georgiou said.
The Trump administration’s suspension order on foreign aid has led the Guttmacher Institute to deny 130,390 women daily to access such birth control, and 11.7 million women denied after a 90-day suspension. The result can result in up to 4.2 million unintended pregnancies and deaths of more than 8,340 mothers.
That number is based on the assumption that the program will resume after a 90-day suspension. At a press conference Wednesday, the international program leader said that for a long time, this means that the program could return in a completely unrecognizable way.
“If it comes back, perhaps the abstinence and natural methods we know wouldn’t address the issue,” Sekinpi said.
“Since the suspension of the USAID and USAID programs, we have witnessed unprecedented disruptions, and the impact is on an unanticipated scale.”
