The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop the disbursement of HIV drugs purchased with American aid, even if the drugs are already obtained and sit in local clinics.
Guidance is part of a wider freezing on external aid that started last week. It includes the Emergency Emergency Plan for AIDS, the global health program that George W. Bush has started due to the provision of more than 25 million people worldwide.
The administration was already I moved to stop Pepfar from moving to clinicsHospitals and other organizations in low -income countries.
The appointments are canceled, and patients are removed from clinics, according to people who have knowledge of the situation who fear revenge if they speak publicly. Many people with HIV face a sudden interruption of their treatment.
But most federal officials also express strict orders not to communicate with external partners, which leads to confusion and anxiety, according to several people who have knowledge of the situation.
American officials were also told to stop providing technical assistance to the national ministries of health.
“The partners we are cooperating with in a state of shock, and they do not know what to do because their task that saves life and their commitment has been violated,” said Asia Russell, Executive Director of the Da`wah Group.
Late Sunday night, according to an email seen by the New York Times, the employees of the Disease Control and Prevention Centers were directed immediately, immediately, to stop communicating with employees of the World Health Organization.
They were later directed to be in the meeting room itself – real or virtual – as employees or to participate in email conversations in which employees also participate.
Some have said that they were very afraid of contacting colleagues who consider him friends, even if just goodbye, and they did not want to know the fear of revenge.
On Monday afternoon, officials all over the world were alert that PePFar will close at 6 pm in the East – about three hours after receiving the email – closing the arrival immediately to all data sets, reports and analytical tools.
“Users must specify the priorities of copying the main documents and data,” said the email that was displayed in the Times.
The message prompted speculation that the program would not resume, because its future was really a question.
Some Republican Senate members had a campaign against the re -mandate Pepfar for a period of five years, claiming that the program was promoted for abortion. In March, the program was renewed for one year.
Without treatment, virus levels in people with HIV will rise rapidly, and bypass the immune system for people with people and increase the possibilities that will spread the virus to others.
About one in three women who are not processed may pass the virus to their children.
Intermittent treatment may also lead to resistance strains that can spread all over the world.
One study estimated that if Pepfar would end, it would lose up to 600,000 people during the next decade in South Africa alone. This nation depends on PePfar for only 20 percent of the HIV budget. Some poor countries depend almost on the program.
“This is another domino in the devastating effect of the harmful freezing of programs, leaving the souls hanging in the balance,” said Geeer Reem, who served as chief of staff Pepfar during the Biden administration.
