“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, Executive Director of the African Research Center for Population and Health Services, “but we will never know, because even programs for counting are reduced.”
The interrupted projects include HIV treatment programs that have served millions of people, major malaria control programs in African countries affected by the worst and global efforts to delete Polio.
Here are some of the projects he confirmed to have been canceled by the New York Times:
Support of $ 131 million UNICEF’s Poliot Immunization Program, which paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to the millennium of children.
A $ 90 million contract with Chemonics for bed nets, malaria tests and treatments that would protect 53 million people.
A project led by the FHI 360 that supported Efforts of community healthcare workers to go from door to door looking for malnourished children in Yemen. Recently, it was determined that one of five children was critical too little weight due to the civil war in the country.
All operational costs and 10 percent of drug budget Global drugsThe main channel for the supply of the World Health Organization for Tuberculosis Medicines, which provided treatment with tuberculosis by almost three million people last year, including 300,000 children.
Projects for HIV Care and Treatment HIV led by Pediatric helping Elizabeth Glaser who provided saving drugs of 350,000 people in Lesota, Tanzania and Eswatiniincluding 10,000 children and 10,000 pregnant women who received care so as not to convey the virus to their babies at birth.
Project in Uganda for monitoring the contacts of people with Ebola, the implementation of the supervision and burial of those who died of viruses.
Agreement for managing and distribution of medical supplies worth $ 34 million in Kenya, including 2.5 million monthly HIV treatments, 750,000 HIV tests, 500,000 malaria treatments, 6.5 million malaria tests and 315,000 nets against anti -malary.
Eighty -seven shelters that took care of 33,000 women who were victims of rape and domestic violence in South Africa.
A project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which manages the only source of water for 250,000 people in camps for displaced people located in the center of a violent conflict in the east of the country.
Pre and postnatal health services for 3.9 million children and 5.7 million women in Nepal.
A project led by Helen Keller INTL in six Western Africa countries that provided more than 35 million people with medicine last year To prevent and treatment of neglected tropical diseasessuch as trahoma, lymphatic philaiasis, shistosomiasis and onhocerciasis.
AND Project in Nigeria Providing 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women with severe and acute malnutrition. Raskid means that 77 health care institutions have completely stopped treating children with severe acutely malnourished, which put 60,000 children at the age of 5 at the immediate risk of death.
A project in Sudan that manages the only operational health clinics in one of the largest areas of the Cordofan region, reducing all health services.
A project that serves More than 144,000 people in Bangladesh This provided food for malnourished pregnant women and vitamin A children.
A program that runs the way of the Agency for Assistance, called the reach of malaria, which has protected more than 20 million people from the disease. She provided drugs of malaria to children at the beginning of the rainy season in 10 countries in Africa.
A project that runs an International Plan that has provided medicines and other medical supplies, health care, treatment of impaired malnutrition, water and sanitary protection for 115,000 displaced or affected by a conflict in northern Ethiopia.
More than $ 80 million for Unaids, United Nations agency, which funded work to help countries improve HIV treatment, including data collection and Guardian programs for delivery of services.
President’s Malaria Initiative Program Developwhich controlled mosquitoes in 21 countries with methods that include spraying insecticides inside homes (protecting 12.5 million people last year) and treatment of breeding sites to kill larvae.
AND A project providing HIV and tuberculosis treatment 46,000 people In Uganda led by the Baylor Children’s Medicine Foundation, Uganda.
Smart4tb, Main research consortium Work on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.
AND Demographic and health surveya data collection project in 90 countries that were crucial and sometimes the only sources of information About the health and mortality of mothers and children, nutrition, reproductive health and HIV infections, among many other health indicators. The project was also the basis of budget and planning.
