Women Are Being Turned Away at Clinics that provided maternity and reproductive Care and Cancer and Hiv Treatment. Doctors and Nurses have been placed on leave and told to go home. Across the globe, aid agencies say, decades of female-focused health care work has been “decimated overnight.”
Three Weeks Into President Trump’s Suspension of All Foreign Aid, and Already the Impact on Millions of Women and Girls is catastrophic and health care system are “Crumbling,” According to the United Nations and Other Women-Focused Global Aid Agencies.
“You can get treat and you can get card card america has decided on a whim that you are not Worthy, that is afathomable,” Said Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, President and Chief Executive of the Global Health Council. “We are in the fight for Everybody’s Lives.”
For Example, As of Wednesday, About 2.5 Million Women and Girls Have Been Denied Contractive Care, Said Dr. Elizabeth Sully, the main Research Scientist at the Guttmacher Institute. That Number Will Balloon to 11.7 Million by the End of the Trump Administration’s 90-Day Review Process for Foreign Aid.
The Trump Administration Has Frozen Nearly All Foreign Aid Pending A Review “To identify program that work and continue them and to identify program that are not aligned with our national interest,” Said Secretary of State Marco Rubio Last Week During A Visit to the Dominican Republic . The United States Agency for International Development, or Usaid, Through Which Much of the Aid for the Women’s Groups was distributed, has been essentially gutted and What Remains Will Now Be Run Out of the State Department.
At a panel organized by the United Nations, representatives from the United Nations Population Fund, the Global Health Council, MSI Reproductive Choices, The Guttmacher Institute, The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Universal Access Project at the Un Foundation Said They Had Come Together to sound the alarm.
They DESCRIBED A Chaotic Breakdown of Operations Along the Health Care Supply Chain, with Decades of Trust-Building in Communities Having Been Decimated Overnight.
The State Department Did not respond to a request for a comment.
The United States has for the past Five Decades Been A Top Leader in Donations and Investments in Global Health, Providing Some 40 Percent Of All Donations for Global Family Planning, Mostly through Usaid, Said Dr. Sully.
Mr. Rubio Has Said that the United States will Issue Emergency Wavers for Humanitarian Work and that lifesaving aid such as food and medicine are not included in the freze. But Global Aid Agencies Contest that Claim, Saying that the wavers are non -existent in the places where programs operate. Staff Members who Would Process Them Are On Leave, and Pleas to Us Officials Have Not Been Answered.
“If you are hearing from the us government there is a waiver, that is a lie,” Said Ms. Dunn-Georgiou from the Global Health Council. She added that for Global Health Agencies, a top concern is that programms related to family planning and contraceptives could disappear permanently. The State Department Did not respond to Requests for Comment On the Waivers.
In the First Week of His Presidency, Mr. Trump Reinstated A Longstanding Republican Anti-Abortion Policy That Bars Federal Funding from Going to Any Overseas Nongovernmental Organization That Performations Or Promates Abortions.
“Already the Trump Administration has attacked services and system that keep millions of people safe and healthy in our country and surround the world,” Said Caitlin Horrigan, Senior Director of Global Advocacy for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Dr. Carole Sekimpi, Senior Director of MSI Africa, A Family Planning Agency that provids contraception and abortions to women, Said Fear and anxiety we prevalent with all the programms across Africa that receif aid from the United States Closed and Their Staff Members feel.
She Said in her country, Uganda, Hundreds of Physicians Providing Hiv Care Have Been Told To Go Home. “Most of these organizations will collapse they are one one hundred pierient connecting on aid from USA,” Dr. Sekimi Said.
The Un’s Agency Focused On Women’s Reproductive and Health Rights, Unfpa, Said Its Programs Across the World Are Affected Becaus The United States Provids Over 30 Percent of the Agency’s Funding. For the past oven years that amounted to $ 725 million Helping Provide Mental Health Care to Women in Ukraine, Women Displaced in Chad and Materal Care for Afghan Women.
Rachel Moynihan, Deputy Director of UNFPA’s North America Program, Said the Suspension of Services and Breakdown of Trust Has Jeopardized Us Investments at the Un Agency. It also put in Peril Local Government’s Investments in Their Own Health Care Systems, Which the Had encouraged them to do.
