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PAUSES TO FOREIGN aid by the US and other countries could cause up to ten million additional HIV infections by 2030, according to new research.
A new study published this morning projects that cuts in aid by the US and four other countries could see a return in mortality rates from HIV/AIDS to levels not seen since 2000.
The decision by the Trump administration to cut 90% of the foreign aid it provides to poorer countries was implemented in late January.
The US has been leading the way in the fight against HIV worldwide, providing 73% of international donations.
Funding from America’s two foreign aid programmes USAID and PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) have ensured HIV treatment and prevention services for millions in Third World countries, including several in sub-Saharan Africa.
Total US donations to foreign HIV prevention and treatment programmes have helped to reduce new HIV cases by an average of 8% per year since 2010.
America is not the only state enacting cuts to foreign aid programmes – the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands are also considering varying degrees of reductions in donations, which will mean global funding for combatting HIV will diminish by a quarter by next year.
Medical journal The Lancet has published a report this morning estimating that reductions in aid quantities from donor countries to poorer countries could create an additional 4.4 to 10.8 million HIV cases by 2030, undoing most of the progress made over 25 years.
Co-author of the Lancet study, Dr Debra ten Brink, said the cuts could have “devastating” consequences.
“The current cuts to PEPFAR and USAID-supported programmes have already disrupted access to essential HIV services including for antiretroviral therapy and HIV prevention and testing,” she said.
“Looking ahead, if other donor countries reduce funding, decades of progress to treat and prevent HIV could be unravelled.
“It is imperative to secure sustainable financing and avoid a resurgence of the HIV epidemic which could have devastating consequences, not just in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, but globally.”
“We wont leave the euro ” the biggest mistake Cyprus will ever make…….we are all involved in the biggest scam the world has ever seen. People are still sucking it up, we are in dark times and alot worse to come , it is too late for talking all this will end in very bad violence i am afraid. Sorry to burst some fluffy bubbles but this is going to happen.
Get out Cypress – escape the EuroChoke!
Another fire put out…..just waiting for the next one.
they would not accept the harsh terms and got a better offer, so sf were right
What better offer? It’s worse
It’s considerably worse. I think the increase in their corporate tax rate that they agreed ti would work particularly well here. Intel, the Pharamceuticals…basically all the multi-nationals would just love that.
There are not better offers, this EU project is a scam and history will tell the tale when we are all long gone !!!
Let alone the loss of over a weeks economic activity, approximately a 2% drop in GDP automatically compounded by a declining economy where the banking system is seen as being unsafe.
did they take the bailout in june when they were offered? no, did they tax the savings under 100k? no, they got a better offer, keep up the delusion lads
Peasant you’re absolutely delusional yourself. Keep drinking the coolade prescribed by your miseducated mates at the school of conspiracy and woe is me.
They’re stuck in the scam.
They did the right thing and got a good deal for the vast majority.
Trust funds and shares will suffer but who cares really.
Anastiades himself proposed taxing deposits under 100k – not Germany, not France, not Brussels not the Troika. He wanted to keep his buddies in Moscow happy at the expense of his own people.
This is a typical case of a politician backing something in Brussels only to blame it on “Merkel and the Brussels Bureaucrats” once he gets off the plane back home.
Peasant. Please. Educate yourself before posting. I cringe when I read your uniformed nonsense. It was the Cypriot Govt that wanted to tax deposits below the €100k mark- they wanted to protect their Russian friends.
Sorry Fiachra. Should have read your comment!
The only reason we are in a better position is because we aren’t still in free-fall. This has nothing whatsoever to do with fg or eurozone policy. There was always going to be a halt once the critical number of businesses had shut and economic migrants had emigrated. If we were back in the position we were in in 2010 I wonder would you be saying the same thing. Cyprus did not take the deal in June because of the punitive terms, try reading the thread with the blinkers off for once shaw. At least they have the cojones to refuse something because they judge the terms too harsh, not like our grovelling lapdogs.
Peasant, I have a book for you if you want to read it, we used it in first year in college.
“Economics 6th Edition, by Parkin, Powell & Matthews”
“Reflecting the changing world around us, ‘Economics’ brings the subject to life, helping the student separate the wood from the trees in the economic landscape”.
I agree with the foreword, it really would help you separate the wood from the trees and perhaps help you add factual credence to your misinformed, populist and quite frankly untrue rants?
I am always amused when the FG forces of righteousness play the “populist” card.
Do you know what that word means?
I think it’s funny how the keyboard warriors of miseducation, claim logic and reason based in empirical fact as having an agenda tied to a political agenda.
Just because it doesn’t suit your agenda doesn’t mean it’s not true. I have no allegiance to any political party, they’re all a shower of w@nkers FYI.
. A recent publication from two German finance experts Matthias Weik & Mark Friedrich “Der Gröste raubzug der Geschichte” ( The biggest robbery in history ) describes the ongoing rapid transference of wealth from the bottom up to a small elite, in chilling detail. All based on facts. I dont know if its available in English yet
ISBN 978-3-8288-2949-7
382 Seiten, Paperback
Tectum Verlag Amazon 19 Eur.
Of course those who could, withdrew their money in the branches that were open in London & Birmingham
and Moscow and the Cypriots on the Island were left to carry the can. Thats EU justice.
If only Sinn Fein were in Government. We too could be like Cyprus!!!
And i got paid a lot of money to put my country through this…Im merkels new lapdog
They state among other things that Frankfurt has now surpased London with regards to Casino banking. Perhaps Cyprus was offering too much competition ?
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