“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, Executive Director of the African Health Research and Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to measure the dead are cut.”
End -ended projects include HIV treatment programs that had served millions of people, the main malaria control programs in the worst African countries and global efforts to eliminate polio.
Here are some of the projects confirmed by the New York Times have been canceled:
A grant of $ 131 million in the UNICEF polio immunization program, which paid for the design, supply and delivery of vaccines to millions of children.
A $ 90 million contract with Chemonics for bed nets, malaria tests and treatments that would have protected 53 million people.
A project run by the FHI 360 that supported the efforts of community health workers to go door to door looking for malnourished children in Yemen. He recently found that one in five children was critically degraded due to the country’s civil war.
All operating expenses and 10 % of the drug budget for global drug facility, the main supply channel of the World Health Organization for Tuberculosis Medicines, which last year provided tuberculosis therapy to nearly three million people, including 300,000 children.
HIV care and treatment projects run by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation providing medication to 350,000 people in Lesotho, Tanzania and Eswatini recipients, including 10,000 children and 10,000 pregnant women who received care so as not to transmit their virus birth.
A project in Uganda to identify the contacts of people with ebola, to carry out surveillance and to bury those who died from the virus.
Convention on the management and distribution of 34 million dollars worth of medical supplies in Kenya, including 2.5 million monthly treatments for HIV, 750,000 HIV tests, 500,000 malaria treatments, 6.5 million malaria tests and 315,000 crops.
Eight seven shelters who took care of 33,000 women who were victims of rape and domestic violence in South Africa.
A project in the Democratic Republic of Congo that exploits the only source of water for 250,000 people in camps for displaced people in the center of the violent conflict to the east of the country.
Pre- and postnatal health services for 3.9 million children and 5.7 million women in Nepal.
A project governed by Helen Keller International in six West African countries, which provided more than 35 million people last year with the drug to prevent and treat neglected tropical diseases, such as trachoma, lymphatic philanthropy, schistosommia and onchokerciasis.
A project in Nigeria that provides 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women treated for severe and acute malnutrition. The termination means that 77 health facilities have completely stopped the treatment of children with severe acute malnutrition, placing 60,000 children under 5 years of age at an immediate risk of death.
A project in Sudan that manages the unique business health clinics in one of the largest areas of the Kordofan region, cutting all health services.
A project that serves more than 144,000 people in Bangladesh providing food for malnourished pregnant women and vitamin A to children.
A program managed by the aid route, called Reach Malaria, which protects more than 20 million people from the disease. It provides malaria drugs to children at the beginning of the rainy season in 10 African countries.
A project organized by Plan International that provided medicines and other medical species, health care, malnutrition programming and water and drainage for 115,000 displaced or influenced by the conflict in northern Ethiopia.
More than $ 80 million for UNAIDS, the United Nations Organization, which funded work to help countries improve HIV treatment, including data collection and monitoring programs.
The president’s malaria initiative program called Evolve, which controlled mosquitoes in 21 countries with methods including insecticide spraying in homes (protecting 12.5 million people last year) and treatment of breeding areas to kill the larvae.
A project that provides treatment with HIV and tuberculosis to 46,000 people in Uganda, run by the Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation, Uganda.
Smart4TB, the main research consortium working for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment for tuberculosis.
Demographic research and health research, a data collection project in 90 countries that were critical and sometimes the only sources of information on children’s health and mortality, nutrition, reproductive health and HIV infections, among many other health indicators. The project was also the background of budgets and design.
