The former American head warns that the outbreak of the disease could grow after a decrease in the agency
Former US Administrator of the US International Development Agency (USAID) says great decrease in funding to the Agency could lead to several cases of disease such as paralytic polio and malaria.
In an interview by broadcasting Sunday on CBC -ovi Rosemary Barton live,, Samantha Power described the consequences of the Trump administration decision Fix the funding of the agency.
“There is really no word,” said the strength, who was the head of the agency during the Biden administration, said the chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton.
“The estimates are now 200,000 more cases of paralytic polio,” she said of the influence of the canceled USAIDs of the Management Board.
“Malaria increases, probably 166,000 deaths a year.”
USAID manages funding, provided by the United States, as well as international partners, including Canada, for development projects around the world.
About 10,000 contracts with USAID have been interrupted Last week, according to letters sent to non -governmental organizations. It is part of an unprecedented decrease in the Federal Government by Elon Musk and the Ministry of Government Efficiency.
Power says cuts will also affect girls’ education around the world.
“Many million girls will not be able to be at school because the financing of USAIDs is now abolished for these programs,” she said.
Before led by USAID from 2021 to 2025, Power served as US ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017 under former President Barack Obama.
“The Government of the United States currently acts as if we were living in what was once called great isolation, as if we were cut off from the rest of the world, as if there was no air trip where the virus could be expanded to the US,” Power said.
“[The administration is] Acting like we make all our produced products here, all parts come from here … as if there will never happen to the United States any bad where we need friends. “
She cares that the US Federations are now “on the edge”.
USAID workers who lost their job were given an intervals of 15 minutes to clean their tables on Thursday in the midst of a massive removal of a widely successful program. Workers welcomed the supporters fans as they last left the building.
USAID was founded in 1961 by former President John F. Kennedy and had a long -standing support.
Prior to the reduction, the agency hired about 10,000 people with approximately two -thirds that served abroad, according to the congress research service. 2023, the last year for which data available, USAID managed more than $ 40 billion and provided about 130 countries.
UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said many affected programs in fragile countries that rely on the help of the US to support health systems and food programs. Dujarric said that other issues such as the fight against terrorism, trafficking in humans and drugs and helping a migrant will also suffer as a result of a decrease.
Power says it’s not clear if there is light at the end of the tunnel.
“There seems to be no feeling of remorse, any sense of concern about the human consequences of these actions,” she said.
