The United Nations AIDS agency said Monday that there could be 2,000 new HIV infections a day worldwide and a ten -time increase in related deaths if financing frozen by the United States is not restored or replaced.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, suspended almost all the foreign aid of his country by assuming the position on January 20. Days later, the State Department said that the work on HIV that saves lives under the president’s emergency plan for AIDS will continue.
However, the interruption of health financing and the impact on broader services are having a devastating impact on people who live with HIV/AIDS, said UNIDIDA executive director Winnie Byanyima, to the press in Geneva.
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“This sudden withdrawal of US financing has meant the closure of many clinics, the dismissal of thousands of health workers (…) All this means that we hope that new infections will increase. Onusida has calculated that we could see 2,000 new infections every day,” he said.
Byanyima said the figures were based on UN models, but gave no more details about how these estimates had been reached.
Byanyima said that if the financing of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) does not resume at the end of the 90 -day pause, in April, or is not replaced by another government, “there will be, in the next four years, another 6.3 million deaths per AIDS.”
According to the latest data, in 2023 there will be 600,000 deaths related to AIDS worldwide, he added. “So we are talking about an increase of ten times,” he said.
With Reuters information
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