“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “But we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
The ended projects include HIV treatment programs that millions of people had served, the most important malaria control programs in the worst affected African countries and global efforts to wipe out polio.
Here, some of the projects confirmed the New York Times have been canceled:
A subsidy of $ 131 million to the polio immunization program of Unicef, which paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children.
A $ 90 million contract with the company Chemonics for Bednetten, Malaria tests and treatments that 53 million people would have protected.
A project run by FHI 360 that supported the efforts of community health workers to look for malnourished children in Yemen from door to door. Recently it discovered that one in five children was critical underweight because of the civil war of the country.
All operational costs and 10 percent of the drug budget of the global drug facility, the most important delivery channel of the world health organization for tuberculosis drugs, which last year offered the treatment of tuberculosis to nearly three million people, including 300,000 children.
HIV care and treatment projects run by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation that gave life -saving medication to 350,000 people in Lesotho, Tanzania and Eswatini, including 10,000 children and 10,000 pregnant women who received care so that they would not transfer the virus to their babies at birth.
A project in Uganda to trace contacts of people with Ebola, to perform surveillance and bury those who died of the virus.
A contract to manage and distribute $ 34 million in medical supplies in Kenya, including 2.5 million months of HIV treatments, 750,000 HIV tests, 500,000 malaria treatments, 6.5 million malaria tests and 315,000 antimalaria network nets.
Sevently hiding places that caused 33,000 women who were the victim of rape and domestic violence in South Africa.
A project in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has the only water source for 250,000 people in Kampen for displaced persons in the center of the 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 that is carried out by Helen Keller Intl in six countries in West -Africa that last year gives more than 35 million people the drug to prevent and treat neglected tropical diseases, such as trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and onchocerciasis.
A project in Nigeria offers 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women with treatment for serious and acute malnutrition. The termination means that 77 health facilities have completely stopped treating children with severe acute malnutrition, so that 60,000 children under the age of 5 are placed with an immediate risk of death.
A project in Sudan that has the only operational health clinics in one of the largest areas of the Kordofan region, so that all health services are cut off.
A project that serves more than 144,000 people in Bangladesh that offered food for malnourished pregnant women and vitamin A to children.
A program run by the Path Aid Agency, called Reach Malaria, which protected more than 20 million people against the disease. It offered malaria drugs to children at the start of the rainy season in 10 countries in Africa.
A project run by Plan International that provides drugs and other medical supplies, health care, treatment of malnutrition and water and sanitary facilities for 115,000 displaced or affected by the conflict in the north of Ethiopia.
More than $ 80 million for UNAIDS, the United Nations Agency, who financed work to help countries improve HIV treatment, including data collection and watchdog programs for services.
The Malaria Initiative Program of the President named Evolve, which has carried out mosquito control in 21 countries by methods, including the spraying of insecticide in houses (protecting 12.5 million people last year) and the treatment of breeding grounds to kill larvae.
A project that offers HIV and tuberculosis treatment to 46,000 people in Uganda, run by the Baylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation, Uganda.
Smart4TB, the most important research consortium that works on prevention, diagnostics and treatment for tuberculosis.
The demographic and health surveys, a 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, in addition to many other health indicators. The project was also the foundation of budgets and planning.
