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The decision to reduce the help of US President Donald Trump in East Africa has endangered millions of people. As a result, many mothers could not save their children from HIV due to lack of necessary medicines. The infection is spreading rapidly and the situation deteriorated so much that some women had to get abortion under compulsion.
This was revealed in the latest report of Physician for Human Rights (PHR). In this, on the basis of interaction with doctors, nurses, patients and experts of Tanzania and Uganda, it has been told how the US program Pepfar was shut down.
What is American program Pepfar?
Pepfar, which started in 2003, is America’s largest global health program. Under this, crores of people were saved in many countries including Africa. But the Trump administration has stopped half of the $ 6 billion fixed for 2025. The author of the report says that America should immediately restore funds, so that the hard work of the last 20 years is not wasted.
What was said in the report?
The 39 people who were interacted with, said that due to lack of medicines, patients are getting serious infections. If the mothers could not give medicine to the children, then the newborn HIV positive was born. Many clinics were closed and patients were forced to give up doses of medicine, which further increased the risk of neutralization of the drug. A clinic told in April that the child of one of the four pregnant women suffering from HIV was born to HIV positive.
Who is the most damaged?
Even when there was some relief, its benefit was limited only to pregnant and breastfeeding women. But in Uganda and Tanzania, groups already facing pressure such as LGBTQ+ people, sex workers and drugs were fully deprived of help in government hospitals, they faced discrimination and embarrassment.
The report shows that the trust of the people has also been shaken, now they are getting reduced by governments, foreign help and HIV medicines. Fearing that treatment will be expensive and fake cure will become more active. Fearing rumors, a woman miscarried. He felt that if the child is HIV positive, then he would be considered as a fault.
