‘I’m alive thanks to US foreign aid’ happymamay

“I’m alive thanks to the USA International Development Agency,” says Dmytro Sherembey.

He lived with HIV for 24 years in Ukraine, and says the agency, which distributes billions of dollars from aid around the world, helped prevent spread there.

“Every person has a positive HIV has been identified in Ukraine thanks to this program.”

But the future of the United States Agency for International Development (United States Agency for International Development) is now very uncertain.

It was one of the first procedures for US President Donald Trump after returning to his post signing an executive order that stops all external assistance for 90 days, while a review could be made. He said that the US Agency for International Development is run by “radical left -wing crazy” and avoiding “tremendous fraud” – without providing evidence.

Mr. Sherimbi, who heads a 100 % life, the largest organization led by the patient in Ukraine, remembers that when Russia fired its full invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warehouses that store HIV drugs were bombed.

It is explained that it is the assistance of the US International Development Agency that made it possible to buy alternative medications and distribute them quickly throughout the country.

“The American Agency for International Development is that this is the help of the American people. But it turns out that this aid can be stopped by the decision of one person,” he says.

The US International Development Agency was established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. It has about 10,000 employees and a budget of about 40 billion dollars (32.25 billion pounds), out of a total of $ 68 billion in spending foreign aid to the US government.

It has bases in more than 60 countries, and works in dozens of others. However, most businesses on the ground are carried out by other organizations that they contract and money.

The scope of activities that are widely undertaken. Its work includes providing food in countries that are starving, to operate the world of gold courage detecting in the world, which uses data analysis to try to predict the place of food deficiency.

Elon Musk – the richest man in the world, whom Trump was assigned to reduce the US federal government – the agency “a criminal organization”, without providing evidence, and said the time has come to die.

But in countries like Afghanistan, the end of the United States Agency for International Development can cause huge problems. The agency is one of the largest donors in the country’s health sector, and financing projects that provide life saving services for mothers and children.

A doctor in charge of projects funded by the United States for International Development there said that more than 60 of his team, including midwives, nurses and doctors, have been told to stay at home after financing stopped.

“The future looks dark and influences patients is enormous,” he says.

One of the midwife says: “If the financing continues, the mothers will have to give birth at home where the facilities are closed and the death rates will increase,” says one of the midwife.

The American Agency for International Development also branches into areas such as cybersecurity. One of the Iranian activists, who focuses on fighting pure, says their organization is working with funding from the United States Agency for International Development.

“If an opposition figure, a university student, or a women’s rights activist in Iran are arrested, NGOs such as those I work on immediately, so that social media accounts are lock and removal of a person,” the activist says. Those who asked not to be identified due to the fear of revenge.

This means that if Iranian intelligence agents are forcing the detainees to reveal their passwords, they will not be able to reach that person’s contacts, the activist says.

“If an internet company with the system is working to restrict the access of the Iranians to the Internet, we are offering it publicly and get it … punishing the European Union and the United States.”

“All this work is about to stop it due to the freezing of financing.”

Among its other activities, the United States Agency for International Development also grants scholarships – with 1077 university students in Egypt alone receiving money. Trump’s suspension of international spending and his comments on the United States Agency for International Development have given these students.

“I don’t know my destiny. I was previously a better student with a bright future, but now my future looks dark, and I am afraid that I will go in the wrong direction,” said Mohamed Ashraf, one of the affected students.

Trump is a long -term critic of spending abroad, and he said he does not represent a value in exchange for US taxpayers’ money – sorting the American Agency for International Development, which he described as a waste. But whether the agency could actually close it was not yet clear.

The US Agency for International Development is likely to close, as he really wants to musk from the work of Congress – where the Republican Party of Trump carries a small majority in both rooms.

According to what was reported, the administration intends to integrate the main foreign relief agency of the United States government with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio says he is now the Acting Agency Chief – who says thousands of her employees around the world will be placed at the end of the week.

For Mr. Shermebi in Ukraine, the risks cannot be higher.

“My life is at risk now. If the hospital runs out of this medicine, I will have to search for it elsewhere,” he says.

“But the tragedy for a person with HIV in Ukraine is that you cannot simply go to a pharmacy and buy these drugs. You cannot buy them on the black market. People with HIV here do not have alternatives.”

“It is Al -Hamji to go back to the Stone Age.”

She participated in the reports of Diana Koreschko, the Ukrainian BBC; God preserved Marouf, BBC Afghans; Maryam Zaidi, BBC Persian; Rehabilitation Ismail, BBC Arabic; George Wright