The big vagueness for the fight against AIDS – Liberation

It is uncertainty for organizations involved in the fight against HIV. Last week, the Trump administration had announced the end of its financial participation in Onida, which coordinates the various UN prevention and epidemic agencies, after the suspension of more than 90 % of programs abroad by the American Development Agency (USAID). But Wednesday, March 5, the Supreme Court of the United States, however mainly conservative, ordered the Trump administration to resume the payments due to international aid organizations, and requires paying nearly 2 billion frozen aid, without specifying when or how it should do it. Waiting for details, and any appeals, UNAIDS, which depends on the USAID money for half, no longer knows what to stick to.

« For the moment, the decision of the Supreme Court does not change anything », We assure UN organizations. Because even if the funds are released, it may take time: « Stopping programs is easier at the logistical level than to restart them. » According to the organizations, which are suspended from each announcements of the tenant of the White House, the attempt to