Unaids welcomes us to continue to finance HIV treatment
The move from the United Nations agency dedicated to ending this disease has been met with the temporary suspension of funding within 90 days for all foreign supports given under President Trump’s executive order, Includes the U.S. President’s emergency plan on AIDS relief (Pepfar).
Pepfar is the world’s leading HIV initiative that directly supports more than 20 million HIV -infected people, representing two -thirds of people treated HIV globally.
The abandonment of continuing or resuming “humanitarian support for life”, applicable to health and health care for the core lives.Including HIV treatment, as well as the necessary source for such aid.
‘Important role’
“Unaits Welcome this abandonment from the US Government to ensure that millions of HIV -infected people can continue to receive HIV -rescue drugs in the process of assessing foreign development support from the United States. ” Unaits CEO, Winnie Byanyima.
“This urgent decision recognizes the important role of Pepfar in the AIDS reaction and recovers hope for HIV -infected people.. “
The suspension of funding for development support to evaluate the effectiveness of the program and consistency with the US foreign policy, “is one of the first major foreign policy decisions of the new government.
Unaids will continue to make efforts to ensure that all HIV -infected people are served and other important components in Pepfar’s life efforts, including service and service provision for room and service. Prevent, care and support for orphans and vulnerable children, continued.
Immediately impact
Before that, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) Expressing deeply concerns about the meaning of the suspension of funding for HIV programs in low and medium -income countries.
These programs provide access to HIV therapy for more than 30 million people worldwide. Globally, 39.9 million people lived with HIV at the end of 2023.
“Such measures, if prolonged, can lead to an increase in new infections and deaths, reversing decades of progress and potentially bringing the world back to the 1980s and 1990s when goods Million people die from HIV every year globally“The person in a statement was made before the Secretary’s emergency abandonment was announced.
More than 26 million life is saved
Pepfar has been a leading initiative of the global HIV reaction since its inception more than 20 years ago, he emphasized.
Any pause for Pepfar will have a direct impact on millions of lives depending on the safe and effective Retrovirus resistance.
Pepfar works in more than 50 countries around the world and has saved more than 26 million life in the past two decades. Currently, Pepfar is providing HIV treatment for more than 20 million HIV -infected people globally, including 566,000 children under 15 years old.
Self -reliance is increasing
Who said that in the past year, Pepfar and partners – including who – ” Working on sustainable plans with countries to own larger countries and reducing the support of donors to and exceeding 2030. “
A sudden and prolonged stop for the programs will hinder the transition process and make the lives of millions of people at risk.
The agency said they would commit to support Pepfar and other partners, as well as the national government, in managing processes that change effectively to minimize the impact on HIV -infected people.
