The cut of most of the international aid of USA It raises the risk of getting even worse the humanitarian situation in war zones, where health systems were already confronted with major tests, such as in particular in Gauze strip or at Sudanwarned a Sunday official yesterday World Health Organization.

After taking power on January 20, the President Donald Trump It frozen US aid abroad, including important programs aimed at improving health on a global scale, while practically disrupting USAID, the US International Development Aid Service, which had an annual budget of $ 42.8 billion in $ 42.8 billion.

Washington also announced its forthcoming retirement from WHO, which would reduce its budget by one fifth, shrinking its missions and staff.

The US, for a long time, the country that has contributed most of the UN health funding, did not pay the amounts committed in 2024 and may not even do so in 2025.

“The one who plays an important role in preserving health systems, their restoration, training and development of medical groups to deal with emergencies,” said Hanan Balchi, his regional director responsible for the Eastern Mediterranean during the Eastern Mediterranean.

“Many of these programs have stopped today or cannot continue,” Ms. Balchi warned.

In the Gaza Strip under a siege, where the health situation is devastating and huge material damage, after one and a half years of war between the Palestinian Islamist Movement of Hamas and the Israeli Army, most hospitals have ceased to operate.

“The support of the medical emergency groups, the supply of medicines, the rehabilitation of health infrastructure is directly affected by the freezing of American aid,” Ms Balchi explained.

In Sudan, the organization is facing increasing difficulties, as the war raging for more than two years between the regular army and paramilitaries uprooted millions of people.

Sectors of the country are affected simultaneously by at least three epidemics – Elosia, Dangelic Fever, Cholera – said Mrs Balchi.

“We are working intensively to recognize recovered and reappearing pathogens, to protect the Sudanese and the rest of the world,” he said.

The departure of the US from also undermine communication channels that have been around for decades with the best universities, research centers and public health institutions in the country.

This would risk preventing the exchange of information, critical to prevent health crises such as a future pandemic, thus affecting “our ability to guarantee surveillance and detection of diseases” on a global scale, his official added.

As he reminded him, “these bacteria and viruses do not know borders and are indifferent to the human political context.”