About 800,000 MPOX vaccines, which have promised to fight the infectious diseases in Africa, are expected to go to waste due to Trump’s cuts to US international development agencies.
According to politics, Citing the African Disease Control and Prevention Center can not be delivered because the vaccine dose is too close to expiration date.
YAP BOUM, deputy director of the African CDC, said, “In order for a vaccine to be delivered to a country, at least six months before expiration of the vaccine and the immunization are required.”
Biden administration in September pledge The United States will offer more than a million doses to fight African infectious diseases, and many of them have killed almost 2,000 people.
but, politics Only 91,000 of them were delivered, and only 220,000 of them still have enough validity when the Trump administration signs them.
The continent is already facing dangerous tribes of MPOX vaccination. like science Last month:
In September 2024, the African CDC and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly published the MPOX “Continental Preparation and Response Plan”, which requires vaccination. 10 million African people within six months. The updated version of the updated plan issued in April has narrowed people who need to provide vaccines and reduced their goals. 64 million People until August.
However, according to the WHO situation report on May 29, 720,000 Seven people in seven African countries received MPOX vaccines. The dose is insufficient, the vaccination team lacks transportation with medical workers, and it may be difficult to see who may have been exposed to the MPOX virus and to bring the vaccine first.
Salim Abdul Karim, chairman of the African CDC’s emergency consultation group, said Trump’s “rapid closure of USAID support for African MPOX control efforts,” “It played an important role in the logistics of vaccine storage and distribution.”
June report Public citizens Insert an impressive lack of dose in a larger point of view. The group reported that Africa had almost six times less vaccine than the United States in 2022-23, which was significantly less serious than Africa facing.
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They pointed out the high price claimed by the vaccine manufacturer Bavarian Nordic. The company sold the vaccine for UNICEF for $ 65 per dose, and paid the second most expensive drug UNICEF.
UNICEF demanded a quarter of the drug price in the Nordic drugs of Bavaria and raised the dose to fight the crisis, but the company did not respond to the request. As a result, UNICEF has dropped 350,000 capacity from millions of millions of times.
This tribe was deteriorated by the actions taken by the Trump administration. During the USAID operation, the United States stopped working with the World Health Organization (WHO), a major company that organizes vaccine allocation.
According to the report, the Trump administration’s behavior said, “The nursing was stopped in various diseases and health services, and serious funds occurred.”
The MPOX vaccine is not the only form of international aid that the Trump administration is wasted as a direct result of USAID.
monday, Hana Kiros reported Atlantic Ocean The Trump administration said, “Instead of sending to overseas people who need food, instead of stimulating it, order to stimulate it instead of stimulating”:
According to the present and former public officials, according to the present and former civil servants who have direct knowledge of distribution, about 150 tons of emergency food (supply of about 1.5 million children will be supplied to about 1.5 million children). In a few weeks, two of them told me that food for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan would be ashes.
Trump administration Officially terminated On July 1, USAID canceled 83%of the program at the beginning of Trump’s term.
On the same day, the study was published LancetOver the past 20 years, the organization’s efforts have saved more than 90 million people, and mortality rate is the most reduced to prevent HIV/AIDS, MALAA and other tropical diseases.
Do James Macinko, a research researcher at UCLA and co -author of research, use resources well? Sayed NPR. “In that small amount, we were able to save up to 90 million deaths worldwide.”
According to Shock counterThe database created by Brooke Nichols, a global health associate professor at Boston University of Public Health, has already less than 250,000 children and 120,000 adults as of June 26.
According to lance If the cut is extended to 14 million people (14 million people who lived, including more children) in 2030, they die.
Olivier de Schutter said in a work published on Friday that “these deaths will not be the result of drought, earthquake, infectious diseases or war.” General dream. “They will be the direct result of one of the richest people who walk this planet.”
