The World organization of health (WHO) He urged Tuesday to USA to reconsider your decision to freeze the financing of programs to fight AIDS in developing countries, announced by the new president Donald Trump.
“We urge the government of USA to authorize additional exemptions to guarantee the supply of vital treatments and care against HIV, “the UN Health Agency wrote in a statement.
The WHObased in Geneva, he recalled that these programs allow to deliver medications 30 million people that need them in the world.
Trumpon his first day of mandate, he signed on January 20 decree that frozen American external aid for 90 days, while a complete review is carried out to see if it fits the policy that the Republican tycoon intends to follow.
USA Abandon the WHO
He also signed a decree so that USA Abandon the WHOwhich he previously attacked for his response to COVID-19. USA He is the biggest donor of this United Nations agency.
- The cuts of the financing Americans, “if they last, could cause new increases infections and deaths, reversing decades of progress and potentially retreating to the world to the 1980s and 1990s, when millions of people They died every year because of HIV in the world, including many in USA“The WHO.
