The suspension of financial aid to African countries to alleviate their health and sanitation problems has created the threat of epidemics in countries like Guinea, medical sources emphasized here today.
This aid, valued at approximately $15 million last year, disrupted efforts to combat endemic epidemics such as malaria by making diagnostic testing, drug delivery, and other health activities impossible.
Washington also reduced its contribution to the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which funds efforts to prevent these diseases.
Last February, United Nations (UN) agencies offered a grim assessment of the global impact of the deep cuts to humanitarian funding by the new US administration of President Donald Trump.
Amid uncertainty about future U.S. funding, these UN organizations reiterated the immediate impact on people at risk in the world's poorest settings.
