INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Clinics in Uganda are scrambling to find new sources for vital HIV drugs, aid workers in Bangladesh fear refugee camp infrastructure will
crumble, and mobile health units may have to stop treating civilians near the frontline in Ukraine.Services worldwide have been thrown into
flows for 90 days for review.A few exemptions include military aid to Israel and emergency humanitarian food assistance, but charities said
It provides antiretrovirals to 20 million people with HIV globally, and funds test kits and preventive medicine supplies for millions
president of the International Aids Society, adding that stopping Pepfar would be disastrous
He said the presidential order had brought supplies to a standstill
were facing the same situation.A stop work order was not needed to carry out a review of aid, she said
A prolonged freeze of US foreign aid will cause many such clinics to close, said experts
year.The humanitarian sector had been braced for the impact of Trump policies such as the reintroduction of the global gag rule and
threatened defunding of UN agencies, but the stoppage of currently funded projects came as a shock
Many aid sector organisations said on Monday they were still assessing whether their programmes were affected.Andriy Klepikov, executive
located to the frontline are impacted
We provide mobile medical services to people in the areas where there are no clinics, doctors or nurses
foreign assistance and the people around the world who rely on it, who are living through humanitarian disasters and struggling simply to
without any plan or safety net
has been carved out as one exception, but funding for clean water, sanitation, healthcare and more has not been and are just as vital to
survival for people living through crisis
Funding for emergency food is not affected
provided 55% of funding for the Rohingya humanitarian response and which had already seen a drop in funding last year
As well as hitting HIV programmes, it would stop work fighting a deadly Marburg outbreak in Tanzania and an mpox variant killing children in
west Africa, he said.It will also affect programmes monitoring the spread of bird flu, and working to eradicate polio and tropical diseases
such as river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, he said, as well as services providing healthcare for pregnant women and childhood
vaccinations.View image in fullscreenStudents receive Covid vaccinations at a school in Liberia
Many childhood vaccination programmes depend on USAid
in the humanitarian sector, said the sudden stop-work orders would have a harsh, far-reaching impact because of the extent the global system
