US aid cuts could create untreatable TB bug ‘resistant to everything we have’ | Tuberculosis

The upper doctor has warned that new, dangerous forms of tuberculosis (TB), which cannot be shown as a result of lowering American aid.

Dr. Lucka Ditio, who heads the tuberculosis stoppage partnership, said that she is afraid that the interruptions that suffer from people’s air treatment will allow air to turn into a new unimaginable form.

Moreover, the lack of diagnostic services, which were also badly affected by the reduction of aid in the Trump administration, will allow tuberculosis more easily, she said.

Programs that work to discover, treat and research new ways to fight tuberculosis from Almost 10,000 health projects around the world This received notifications at the end of February that the United States was ending its financing after reviewing the aid spending.

The United States has historically provided between 200 million dollars (155 million pounds) and a year of 250 mm in bilateral financing for poor countries for its work in tuberculosis, as the World Health Organization said last week, warning that “sudden financing discounts” would paralyze tuberculosis and treatment efforts, and inverse contracts of progress, Millions of lives are at risk“.

In a statement, the organization said: “Early reports of more than 30 countries from TB-Burden confirm that financing withdrawals already dismantled basic services, threatening the global battle against tuberculosis.”

She said that this included the demobilization of health workers, medicine supplies chains, laboratory services, and collapsed data and monitoring systems.

Tuberculosis stoppage – a Non -hosted network One of the organizations working to fight the disease – has received a notice that the United States was ending its financing, before a second message was canceled saying that the termination had been canceled. However, Ditiu said the financing flows have not yet resumed, and that they are still concerned about the effect of the wider discounts on tuberculosis.

The US State Department said that its strategy was now “every dollar we spend, every program we fund Every policy we followed by America must be safer, stronger and more prosperous“.

But Detio said: “Stopping the response of the tuberculosis does not do any of this. First of all, it certainly does not make any of us safe, because tuberculosis is air.

“The current measures are likely to create additional strains because there are people who suffer from intermittent treatment, there are no people who have been diagnosed, etc.” she said.

Detio said that the year 2024 was “the best year ever” in terms of diagnosing and treating people with tuberculosis. She added that these achievements will now “retreat.”

She said that the world has now faced a “very dark” situation. Drug -resistant tuberculosis is still difficult to treat, with modern systems for six months that come with major side effects.

“I know that there are groups that are conducting research on resistance to severe medicines, including in South Africa, which immediately stopped,” she said. This means that people who receive any treatment there are now out of treatment.

“So you can create an error with severe drug resistance – you can create an almost resistant mistake for all we have,” she said. “This is the frightening picture.”

In 2023, there were 10.8 million cases of new tuberculosis and 1.25 million people dying from the disease. The United States has exposed itself to the outbreak of tuberculosis in the past three months, in Kansas and North Carolina state. The World Health Organization and the United Nations set goals to eliminate the disease by 2030, but even before the decision of American aid, there was Decreased 11 billion dollars In the global response.

Treatment and diagnosis are disrupted during Corona virus pandemic Detio said doctors see “more complicated” forms than tuberculosis in their patients, including some with holes in their lungs. She added that it was a pattern that I expected to see repeated, especially among the poor and the weak.

“We have done a lot of work with civil society and societies, and they were supporting people for a diagnosis, to continue their treatment – and there is nothing from this now.”

Detio said that there could be a lack of drugs later in the year as the two countries used their supplies.

Detio said that some countries that have high levels of tuberculosis, such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Nigeria, India and South Africa, may be able to find their own resources, but it is possible that others will fight, “especially in Africa.” She expressed hope that institutions such as the African Development Bank or the World Bank are able to help, but it is believed that people will die as a result of discounts.

She said she was “tragic.” “I am very annoyed that we were a little confident that the hardness of a country’s commitment like the United States will be there forever.”