The United States is the world’s largest provider of official development assistance, with most funds directed through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
“It’s dramatic in many countries,“ UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima told AFP.
The US move included a 90-day suspension of all work by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), although his administration later issued waivers for medication under the programme.
That programme supports more than 20 million HIV patients and 270,000 health workers, according to an analysis from the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).
“Or we could see new infections increase up to 8.7 million” in the same period, she said.
Speaking on the sidelines of the African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Byanyima said she had discussed the issue with leaders, urging them to transition from foreign funding towards using domestic revenue.
“Part of the answer is in pushing very hard for an immediate and comprehensive debt restructuring,“ she said.
Founded in 1961, USAID has an annual budget of more than $40 billion, used to support development, health and humanitarian programmes around the world, especially in poor countries.
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