LONDON – The head of the United Nations AIDS agency said Monday that the number of new HIV infection can jump more than six times by 2029 American support Among the largest AIDS program, it was dropped, warning that millions of people can die and that the breeds of the disease are more resistant to appear.
In an interview with Associated Press, UNAIDS CEO Winnie Pianima said HIV infections It has decreased in recent years, with only 1.3 million new cases in 2023, a 60 % decrease since its peak in 1995.
But since then President Donald Trump’s announcement Boheima said that the United States will freeze all external aid for 90 days, and officials estimate that by 2029, there may be 8.7 million people who have recently HIV, a ten-fetal leap in AIDS-to-6.3 million-people deaths-and 3.4 million children Additional orphans.
“We will see an increase in this disease,” said Boemima, speaking from Uganda. “This will cost a life if the US government does not change its opinion and maintain its leadership,” she said, adding that it was not in its place to criticize any government’s policy.
The Trump administration defended the Trump administration not to cut the financing suddenly, which it said led to “panic, fear and confusion” in many African countries The most difficult to hit AIDS.
In one of the Kenyan provinces, 550 HIV workers have been immediately demobilized, while thousands of others were finished in Ethiopia, leaving health officials unable to track the epidemic.
She noted that the loss of American financing for HIV programs in some countries was catastrophic, with external financing, most of them from the United States, which represents about 90 % of its programs. She said that approximately $ 400 million goes to countries such as Uganda, Mozambique and Tanzania.
“We can work with (Americans) on how to reduce their contribution if they want to reduce it,” she said. Byanyima described the American withdrawal of global HIV efforts as the second largest crisis that the field has ever faced-after a delay in the years lasted for a year to provide poor countries to obtain life-saving antivirals for life in rich countries.
BYANYIA also said that the loss of American support in the efforts to combat HIV was coming in another. Critical timeWith the arrival of his so -called “magic protection tool” known as LenacAPAVIR, a snapshot twice throughout the year that was displayed as providing full protection against HIV in women, which also worked on men.
Bayraima said that the wide use of that shot, in addition to other interventions to stop HIV, can help end the disease as a general health problem in the next five years.
I also noticed that Lenacapavir, which was sold as Sunlenca, was developed by the American company Gilead.
“An American company helped innovate to reach something that would push them millions and millions, but at the same time it prevents new infections in the rest of the world,” said byanyima international aid. She said that the freezing in American financing had no economic meaning.
“We appeal to the US government to review this, to understand that this is useful for both parties,” she said, noting that foreign assistance is less than 1 % of the total American budget. “Why do you need to be very troubled for this 1 %?”
BYANYIA said that so far, no other countries or donors have risen to fill the void that the loss of American aid will leave, but it plans to visit many European capitals to speak with global leaders.
She said, “People will die because life saving tools have been taken away from them.” “I have not yet heard of any European country committed to entering, but I know that they listen and try to know where they can come because they care about rights and humanity.”
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