Healthcare in Africa on brink of crisis as US exits WHO and USAid freezes funds
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Well, if we want to help pick up the slack, then we should be donating to various health organizations that operate on the continent. I've been doing that since 2010 with organizations like Doctors Without Borders and Fistula Foundation and will continue to do such. Every little bit helps, so send what you can on a mothly basis.
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Bleed The Freak
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Many former African countries were, despite getting their independence, are still In what you call colonial economical enslavement.
Many former colonies were still forced to use their European monetary systems in exchange for their 'freedom'. And many times they also had to prop up puppets of leaders that were very friendly to their former colonial powers to get restrictions lifted. France was/is notorious for that shyt
Look up the Francis Franc monetary system
Congo never really recovered from the atrocities Belgium pulled.
Respectfully, these countries should be leveraging China for this stuff there same way China brags about all the investing on the continent they are doing. I just got back from spending over a month on the continent, yet I`m seeing a BRICS country on the list of top countries getting USA Aid. That is pitiful
Pure Water
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I don’t have to be from any of those countries to see the dysfunction.
RickyDiBiase
The Sword of Jesus of Nazareth
Why should I care what you think at all
Avg coli poster never been to an African country yet thinks oligarchs are siphoning all USA aid money to buy expensive cars.
Millions of Ugandans depend on U.S. aid to receive treatment for HIV, malaria, and other epidemics. This aid has also supported maternal and child health, vaccine delivery and other forms of basic health assistance.
USAID was key during the Covid19 response in Uganda. In 2021, at the height of a deadly variant, USAID contributed US$3.5 million for oxygen and other supplies. During the Ebola outbreak in 2022, Ministry of health received viral hemorrhagic fever kits from the agency including gloves, boots, masks and scrubs.
According to U.S. foreign assistance data, U.S. aid to Uganda amounts to $710 million (Shs2.5 trillion) per year—the bulk of it going to HIV/AIDS treatment— with over 700,000 Ugandans receiving lifelong ARV therapy through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR
Millions of Ugandans depend on U.S. aid to receive treatment for HIV, malaria, and other epidemics. This aid has also supported maternal and child health, vaccine delivery and other forms of basic health assistance.
USAID was key during the Covid19 response in Uganda. In 2021, at the height of a deadly variant, USAID contributed US$3.5 million for oxygen and other supplies. During the Ebola outbreak in 2022, Ministry of health received viral hemorrhagic fever kits from the agency including gloves, boots, masks and scrubs.
According to U.S. foreign assistance data, U.S. aid to Uganda amounts to $710 million (Shs2.5 trillion) per year—the bulk of it going to HIV/AIDS treatment— with over 700,000 Ugandans receiving lifelong ARV therapy through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR
This'll do wonders for epidemics and disease control
Border Closed so it's their problem
But nah, Aid is a very nuanced thing as it has been a political tool for control, for the longest we asked for USA to stop meddling in other countries business and then when the USA does it becomes an Issue. For me the numbers are astounding in the sense that USA dominates in Aid numbers yet all the opps of the USA don't do anything, and are at Climate Change conferences asking for bread. China is a Developing nation and Super Power in the same sense lol why they get to keep their bread? Their investments are all loan related so it isn't like they do shyt for free.
If anything I feel the USA should adopt the Chinese approach in investing and building too vs flexing aid for political influence solely
AnonymityX1000
Veteran
Uh, you quoted me, I didn't make you. Pay me no mind it will cost you nothing.
I feel like this is gonna be used to fukk with the people in the continent are trying to do good. Malema is gonna have to help those who are in need in other countries. This is gonna weaken the growth their fostering.
RickyDiBiase
The Sword of Jesus of Nazareth
What a p*ssy.
this nikka said Julius Malema
This is extremely serious. If you know someone with humanitarian aid, please PM ASAP.US president Donald Trump has taken a series of decisions that have delivered body blows to the global management of health. He has announced that the US will leave the World Health Organization. And a 90-day freeze has been placed on money distributed by the US Agency for International Development (USAid) pending a review by the US State Department. This includes funds for the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar). The decisions have triggered alarm in the global health sector.
Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, outlines which countries are most at risk and which health programmes will suffer the most damage.
What does the US exit mean for Africa?
The US exit from the WHO and the freeze announced on USAid funding are devastating moves that will have drastic effects on the health of millions of people in Africa.
The US is by far the WHO’s largest state donor, contributing approximately 18% of the agency’s total funding.
US development aid is used to run large-scale health programmes on the continent. For example, Nigeria received approximately US$600 million in health assistance from the US, over 21% of the 2023 health budget.
The WHO is a global health body that synthesises scientific research and develops guidelines that countries in Africa rely on to shape their own policies and practices.
What’s going to be lost?
A range of capabilities.
Firstly, technical guidance. The WHO provides technical guidance to countries on issues ranging from TB management to cost-effective malaria control.
Secondly, the ability to mobilise resources. The WHO has the mandate and mechanisms to assemble experts from across the globe to evaluate new therapeutics, diagnostics and vaccines. They can evaluate new evidence on emerging patterns of new bugs, resistance to current treatments, and so on.
Thirdly, the WHO has tools and mechanisms that have been key to African countries’ health policy decisions. These include:
the WHO’s list of Essential Medicines to inform decision-making on critical drugs
a similar mechanism to evaluate new vaccines, resulting in guidance that makes regulatory approval faster and easier in African countries which don’t have strong systems.
Fourth, the WHO also provides resources for emergency response, as in the event of disease outbreaks such as Ebola and COVID-19. The WHO is able to quickly mobilise experts and funds and to coordinate emergency responses.
Fifth, the WHO provides evidence-informed guidelines. It does this by gathering and sharing information like the causes of outbreaks, while monitoring signals of potential outbreaks and coordinating efforts to develop new technologies, such as vaccines and medical devices.
Sixth, the WHO’s ability to support critical programmes in tuberculosis prevention and emergency response will be reduced.
Seventh, the withdrawal of US citizens working in these global agencies – and the orders to stop sharing data – mean the US is essentially excluded from global information-sharing mechanisms that keep us all safe. It will be harder to share information about emerging health threats in the US with the rest of the world and vice versa.
Which countries will be most affected?
Many African countries are heavily reliant on the support provided by Pepfar and USAID to fund programmes in the health sector and for humanitarian assistance.
Countries which will be most affected are those with a high burden of HIV, TB and malaria and those with large populations of refugee and internally displaced people.
Currently the top eight USAid recipients in Africa are: Nigeria, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Without funds being rapidly mobilised to fill the gap left by the US withdrawal, the effect on the health of millions of Africans is at stake. Failure to prevent new infections, and the threat of drug resistance developing because of disrupted treatment, will have far-reaching consequences.
In Uganda, where about 1.4 million people are living with HIV/Aids, 60% of the spending on its HIV/Aids programme was from Pepfar, and about 20% from the Global Fund (partly funded from Pepfar).
A drastic reduction in funding will be devastating for patients and the greater health system.
The Pepfar programme, a lifeline for millions of Africans, has been under threat since before the most recent aid freeze. In 2024, the American congress only gave a one-year authorisation instead of the typical five-year funding authorisation.
A conservative backlash against this programme has been growing for years with concerns that some funds may be used to fund abortion. The current authorisation expires in March 2025 and falls within the 90-day aid review period. With the current approval expiring next month, and in light of the current atmosphere, it is very likely that it may not be renewed.
Healthcare in Africa on brink of crisis as US exits WHO and USAid freezes funds: health scholar explains why
US withdrawal from the WHO and of all foreign aid will have dire consequences for Africa. It’s time the continent took responsibility for its own people.theconversation.com
You know America and the rest of the west run the more resource powerful countries in Africa.
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