A man was sitting outside the closed Isizinda Sempilo clinic in Saobito Johnnburg Town, January 30. Alfonso nqunjana/AP Hidden subtitles
Johannesburg-President Donald Trump signed almost all the US foreign aid administrative orders four days later, and an email landed in the Claris Madhuku in the rural area of Zimbabwe. Essence It said that all activities were stopped immediately.
The information confirmed that Madhuku was concerned that Trump's return to office may affect its organization's efforts to save African girls from children's marriage.
Many Africans know that Trump's "US first" prospect means that their mainland may be his priority. However, they did not expect the foreign aid of the world's largest donor to suddenly stop. These donors stopped the flow of funds for extensive project flows such as disease reactions, girl education and free school lunch.
Even after the global anger prompting exemption from Trump's orders, Sahara South Africa may suffer greater pain than any other region, because most global assistance has suspended 90 days of expenditure review. Last year, the United States provided more than $ 6.5 billion in humanitarian assistance to the region.
For Madhuku and countless others, damage has been caused. His youth and community development platforms are one of hundreds of non -governmental organizations in Africa, and these organizations have gained good jobs from the US government (eventually from the American people).
Without US assistance, Madhuku groups will not be able to provide about 100 volunteers' food and public transportation allowances because they do seeking to leave girls in school and early marriage.
Madhuku said: "We must stop everything, there is no warning, there is no time to adjust." "I thank Trump for trying to explain the money of US taxpayers may have some reasons ... but this has caused disaster here."
For many people in Africa, thought can immediately turn to the world's most successful foreign aid plan, president's emergency AIDS relief plan or Pepfar.
In the past two decades, the plan to obtain the support of the two parties has been saved by more than 25 million lives. This is the vast majority of Africa, which aims to help most of the mainland.
The Minister of Health in South Africa is the "trouble of the world," said the country's Health Minister of the country with the most AIDS virus, saying that after the United States was frozen for assistance.
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that the United States has funded nearly 20 % of the US AIDS/AIDS programs of US $ 2.3 billion in South Africa through PEPFAR, which is now threatened to the greatest response to a disease in history.
More than 8 million people in South Africa suffer from HIV. The authorities said that Pepfar provided 5.5 million people with anti -inversion virus treatment for 5.5 million people a day.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that it will provide "saving life" assistance (including medical, medical services, food and asylum) plans to be exempt from assistance frozen, although it is unclear.
The United Nations AIDS Program said that due to the suspension of assistance, many organizations that accept PEPFAR funds have been closed, and "lack of clarity and great uncertainty in the future." Unaids said more than 20 million people around the world received HIV treatment with Pepfar support.
In the largest city of South Africa, Johannesburg and elsewhere, a few days after the exemption was announced, facilities funded by Pepfar were still closed and HIV patients were transferred to government hospitals and clinics.
In Soweto, the largest township in Johannesburg, two workers at the HIVSA center funded by Pepfar refused. And notified at the famous Wits RHI's main population clinic that the clinic provides services for adults and HIV infections: "We apologize for inconvenience to you."
Experts say that the impact on the AIDS program is unclear, but the consequences may be rapid or even dangerous.
"We need to know more," said Charles Kenny, a senior researcher at the Washington Global Development Center, said that people would not die directly. "Drugs and HIV diagnostic tests are also crucial to ensure that people need treatment.
Kenny said that even a brief interruption of the treatment of reversing virus (virus from replication in the body) is risky.
He said: "If you leave the anti -reverse virus, the virus rate of HIV rebounds within about three weeks."
Overall, even senior officials in the community are not sure which US funding plans are allowed to continue to operate at least.
The Trump administration has warned the contractor and staff of the US International Development Agency (USAID)-responsible for dispersing US foreign aid-if they talk to anyone other than the agent without the highest level of approval, they It may be punished by disciplinary and aid groups are worried that if they speak, they may permanently lose funds.
A humanitarian official told the Associated Press that at least 1.2 million people may lose their support for saving life due to assistance frozen. The official who was unwilling to be named was because they had no right to speak publicly on the matter. He said that almost half of the organization's funds came from the International Development Agency of the United States.
Overall, more than 100 million US dollars in humanitarian plans in more than 30 countries/regions around the world have stopped.
During the major upgrade of the Eastern Fighting in the Congo, the obstacle to assistance was during the major upgrade of the East of the Congo, where millions of people were displaced, and the outbreak of MPOX virus last year was announced as global hygiene emergency.
The official said that in the Sudan, which was full of war with cholera, malaria, and measles, aid frozen frozen means that 600,000 people would face serious risks of capture and dissemination of these diseases.
Even if the service exemption to save life, the official said that their organization was told that they should not restore any activities funded by the US International Development Agency until they received an exemption notice.