The World Health Organization (WHO) expressed the ‘Deep concern’ yesterday on Tuesday’s decision by President Donald Trump’s government to suspend the funding of AIDS programs in developing countries and asked US authorities to revise this position.

“We call on the US government to allow further exceptions to guarantee the treatment of AIDS that saves lives”he emphasized in his announcement, reminding that these programs allow They are administered the necessary medicines to 30 million people internationally.

A few 24 hours after Donald Trump’s swearing -in for his second term in the White House on January 20th, his government announced on Friday the suspension of most of the US’s international aid, with the sole exceptions of Israeli and Egyptian aid and Egypt , as well as food aid to deal with emergencies.

The Pepfar program had begun under the presidency of George O. Bush in 2003 And it is characterized by one of the main pillars of the fight against AIDS and spectacular success. Is directly affected by suspension of assistance.

At the end of 2023, 39 million people with HIV, who are causing AIDS, lived around the world.

On Monday, UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres urged Trump government to add ‘Additional Exceptions’given the importance of Pepfar in the struggle against this epidemic, which continues to rage despite significant progress in prevention.

“Stopping HIV funding can expose people living with the virus at an immediate increased risk of dying and dying and undermining attempts to prevent transmission in communities and countries,” In his statement, the organization from which the US President Trump expressed the intention of withdrawing his country on the first day of his second term.

According to US media, the White House has banned any contact with it.

For the international community, the interruption of funding ‘May lead to significant concessions’ As for research, according to the organization.

‘Such measures, if extended, could lead In an increase in new infections and deathsreversing decades of progress and possibly turning the world in the 1980s and 1990s, when millions of people were dying of HIV every year on international scale, including many in the US. “warns the who is based in Geneva.

“The current suspension of Pepfar funding will have a direct impact on millions of people dependent on predictable supply with safe and effective antiretroviral drugs”summarizes where.

Pepfar is about more than 50 countries around the world and, over the past two decades, its funding ‘Allowed over 26 million lives to be saved’he stresses. The current period allows for HIV to be offered to over 20 million infected people, including 566,000 children under 15.

WHO and his partners have already begun efforts to reduce the participation of donors in the program is still noted in the text, but “The sudden and prolonged interruption of programs does not allow a smooth transition and endangers the lives of millions of people.”