One major Campaign Global HIV/AIDS is running to cut administration for funding, it has been claimed that such cuts are killing millions of people, causing global uproar, and China’s global agenda is being carried forward.
It looks serious. Fortunately, this is completely untrue.
On inauguration day, White House ordered A 90-day stagnation To review all American foreign aid. US State Secretary Marco Rubio Speciality As some assistance “defends for US interests, wasting taxpayers money and provoking resentment abroad.”
Rubio was rightBy supporting the progressive agenda, foreign aid went away “away from ideological rail” – something that has reprimanded it Congress,
Assistance stagnation generated an ire among supporters $ 6.5 billion annual The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief or Pepfar was launched in 2003 when Africa faced an out-of-control AIDS epidemic. A powerful Coalition Non -governmental organizations, churches, contractors, foundations, universities and pharmaceutical companies have co -supported a campaign in a lobbying campaign to embarrass Republican MLAs, which reject any cuts.
Only two months in aid freeze, U2 Rock Star Bono Claimed That “300,000 people have already died.” Bill Gates, a major global AIDS beneficiary, warned “millions” Die If the cut is not reversed. Unaids predicts 4 million Deaths per year by 2030.
it gets worse. Former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios Wags Freezing ad is going to force “to destabilize countries” and go to “to go to China”.
But all these allegations are false claims, designed only to intimidate MPs in restoring their annual funding levels.
It has been six months since the reviews of the administration started, and there is no news from Pepfar-Finance Nashed countries that thousands of people are dying of assistance.
Nor has a global downfall due to assistance cuts. South Africa, top Pepfar recipient, Declared“It’s beyond comprehension …[that aid cuts] The entire program will collapse. ,
Under Trump, no African country has implicated. The opposite were Well d’Atat During Biden administration.
Instead, in a welcome development, African people are taking ownership To take care of your own people and reduce dependence on foreign taxpayers.
Is equally absurd Repeated allegations repeatedly They will turn to China with a cut in global HIV funding. In fact, 19 of the top 20 recipients of American foreign aid were already members of China’s belt and road initiative, before anyone. Among them, last year, Mozambique and Tanzania hosted Joint military exercise With China’s Navy, and S is in South Africa BRIC The alliance created by China in 2009 to underline the US Global Leadership.
These are three of the top four pepfar recipients. Obviously, these issues are unrelated.
The real driver of this campaign is the foreign aid industry, which currently stands to lose billions in taxpayer funding. Both American Senate And this Lok Sabha Recently ripped the foreign aid industry for its high overhead fee, which was more than 50 percent of their total grants.
In view of this manufactured hysteria, Republican MPs should be designed to understand that 98 percent Political donation Go to Democrats from Pepfar industry. Know that a large part of that $ 6.5 billion annual Congress gift is being used against your re -election campaign.
Gates Foundation’s global AIDS work is commendable, but it depends on the big US government Co-operationAdvocate Edwocket Established by Bono, a year after the launch of Peppar $ 40 million From Gates Foundation. Forty percent of the UNAIDS budget is covered by the US government.
Pepfar is a big business and a career for many people.
Peppar has also saved the lives of millions. But this is an emergency program – this is the same that is “E” in Peppar – in Africa in response to a crisis. Twenty -three years and $ 125 billion later, some people must have become a global rights program.
Like so many entitled programs, domestic and foreign, pepper expenses made an industry a heavier in its self-effort, which is now prevalent with garbage, fraud and misuse.
Last month, the US Embassy in Zambia announced a $ 50 million in aid cuts after systematically discovering HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria drug donations. Theft The years were resumed by government officials and by corrupt pharmacies. In 2020, USAID found massively Danger Hundreds of million dollars of antiretroviral drugs are included by Kenya’s state medical supply company. Global funds against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria have been alike from corruption Scams,
During these scams, Pepfar Lobby did not release a single peep with thousands of people as a result.
And add the disability of the government to the mixture as well. Recently, a global health supply chain contract of $ 9.5 billion is intended to be the backbone of the US government to support poor countries, Darling After years of planning. Now, no system exists to maximize the distribution capacity of the value of billions of dollars drug.
Last year, the US Center for Disease Control reported that illegally funded abortion in Pepfar Fund Mozambics confirms African leaders’ Allegations Of extensive misuse. This inspired Pepfar pro -Senator Jim Six Dhooan“This violation means that the future of the Pepfar program is definitely in danger.”
Thankfully, Pepfar has also created an African cadre of experts who can conduct HIV programs themselves – without bureaucracy blot of Peepfar industry. By working directly with African churches, which is the origin of medical care in Africa (as in the US), the Congress can cut the cost of pepper by half, can improve delivery effects through local partners, and empower Africans to owe a program to owe a program that they should be infected anyway.
This is the worst condition of the pepper industry.
Max Premorac Margaret Thecore is a senior research companion at the Heritage Foundation at the Thechar for Freedom.
