Taipei, Taiwan – Until recently, it seemed that the sub -area of ​​South Asia was on the right path to reach its goal of getting rid of malaria by 2030.

It was named 4,900 km (3000 miles) that runs from southwestern China via Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, and the region has long been injured by the disease carried by mosquitoes.

From 2010 to 2023, the number of cases caused by the most common malaria parasite decreased from nearly half a million to less than 248,000, according to the World Fund, which is funded by the US government, which is the largest funding in the world for programs, treatment and care for HIV/AIDS, and Slawia’s fermentation.

Nearly 229,000 of these cases were reported in one country, Myanmar, where the disease exploded with the outbreak of the civil war in 2021 and the displacement of millions of people.

As the administration of US President Donald Trump He strongly restricts external aid With the effective dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (US Agency for US Development), health activists are now afraid that the progress made in the Mekong after the officials targeted the Myanmar initiative to combat Malaria to eliminate it.

“We were throwing all our resources in [Myanmar]However, by stopping this, Malaria will return to Southeast Asia and the sub -zone of the Meking. “

The Myanmar government estimated that the issues have risen by 300 percent since the start of the civil war, but Warton Smith said independent research indicates that the real number is more than twice that.

Warton Smith said that new cases also appear in parts of Thailand that Malaria has not seen for years of refugees and immigrants from Myanmar crossing the border, and they are likely to rise after suspending programs to combat the disease.

The decline in financing of malacia in the Meking is just one of many examples of discounts that cause alert between human workers in the global south, where the collapse of the United States Agency for International Development threatens contracts of progress against health crises such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Ebola and malnutrition.

On Wednesday, a senior United Nations Humanitarian official said that the Trump administration has A “seismic shock” was provided to the global aid sector.

“Many will die because this aid is dry,” Tom Fletcher, head of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Coordination (OCHA).

Once in the world the highest source of international aid, The United States Agency for International Development has been appointed to reduce 5,200 out of about 6200 programs About 83 percent of the total – according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Rubio said on Monday: “The 5200 contracts that have now been canceled are spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that were not served, (and in some cases damaged), the basic national interests of the United States.”

The remaining contracts will be Supervised by the US State Department, He said.

This announcement crowned six weeks of the agency’s turmoil that started on January 20 when Trump issued a “stop” for 90 days to help American development.

Thousands of US Agency for International Development, Contractors and Support Employees It was placed on vacation or win, where projects all over the world received “work matter” and the Earth stopped.

I followed the confusion with the stampede of non -governmental organizations to fill the budget gaps and to understand the programs that are due to the declared concession of the life -saving partners.

Last week, the Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to comply with the judgment of the lower court Government To release $ 2 billion in Back Pay owed to the American Agency for International Development and Contractors by a temporary pause.

On Monday, a federal judge once again called on the Trump administration to release the “illegal” funds, arguing that it was already allocated by the US Congress for a specific purpose.

American development assistance was a major goal in the Ministry of Government efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and a close adviser to Trump.

Catherine Kibutong, Executive Director of the African Research Center and Population, Kenya, said that while it agreed that the United States Agency for International Development was repaired, the Trump administration’s wage for the agency showed “a complete lack of understanding in how the world works.”

“We have introduced that the USA’s International Development Agency financing mechanism was very ineffective. There was not much attention to influence, long -term sustainability and such things, so it was not an ideal system. The problem is that you do not raise a minus system overnight.”

“Not only that people appear and distribute medical resistance pills, there is a complete structure” for humanitarian assistance.

“It is completely ignoring how things do, how the world works, and how to run projects, and this is amazing.”

Political aid

While the full impact of the US Agency’s International Development Discounts has not yet been seen, a humanitarian factor in a pioneering non -profit organization said in multiple regions, including Africa and the Middle East, said that any delay in financing may be fatal.

The humanitarian worker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said among the most exhibitions who are treated in intensive care units at emergency feeding stations for complications such as organs and hypoglycemia.

The person told Al Jazerara, “The global human society has thousands of stability centers around the world, with the support of the US government’s money,” calling for not calling it due to fears of the repercussions.

“This is very important because with all the ascension and landing of the people who are waiting for the request to resume the programs, the problems of cash flow … we cannot allow these centers to close until one day. Because if the lights come out in these centers, we see children die.”

“Until now, this was never a political issue. Feeding the hungry children was an issue of the two parties, and humanitarian aid was non -political. Now they politicized it.”

It is also unclear how major American projects such as the President’s Emergency Emergency Plan PEPFAR and President Malaria initiative will undertake fabrics in the future.

He was established by Republican President George W. Bush 20 years ago, and the projects are attributed to the provision of more than 32 million people, according to the Joint United Nations HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the US -NEAIDS data.

Both are funded by Congress but were implemented by government agencies such as the US Agency for International Development and the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which were also targeted with cost reduction measures in Dog.

UNAIDS, the main partner of Pepfar, said last month that the US government was notified of its relationship immediately. The agency said HIV programs in at least 55 countries I mentioned discounts in financing.

UNICEF grants aimed at polio, according to the United Nations, have also been terminated, and the United Nations Population Fund, which oversees reproductive and sexual health programs.

The US Agency for International Development has explicitly rejected any programs related to family planning or the so -called “gender ideology”.

Non -governmental organizations are struggling on the ground in Asia, Africa and other places to fill the gaps in financing and face significant disturbances in service since the issuance of the “work order” during the national stopping period for a period of 90 days.

The latest statement by Rubio to the United States Agency for International Development did not do much to clarify confusion, while the food funded by the United States Agency for International Development and Basic materials is still closed in warehouses, according to two sources of NGOs.

Once again in Meking, Warton Smith, a former adviser to Myanmar, told the American Agency for International Development, she is concerned that there is an occurrence of malaria on Myanmar borders over the past two years that may turn into a flood with the withdrawal of the United States Agency for International Development.

“We will have more malaria as there was no malaria before. She said that many people lost their immunity, which could mean deaths.”

“What happens when we stopped treating tens of thousands of people for malaria? Within a few weeks, the rainy season and then the summer will be a disaster.”