Health sustainability plans are affected by current global changes
Health sustainability plans affected by current global changes
Health has its place in helping people carry out their mission in developing the earth, and it is the most important sector among the sectors targeted in efforts to achieve the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which we find evident in Goal No. (3)Good health and well-being, but there have been recent global changes that undermine the efforts made in this field. So follow the most prominent of these changes in the following lines.
World Health warns
In its official statement, the organization confirmed that this step not only threatens the lives of patients, but may also cause a serious setback to many prevention efforts worldwide. Consequently, infection and death rates rise, and the world goes backwards after decades of progress.
To realize the seriousness of this matter, we must know that access to antiretroviral therapy – a type of virus responsible for causing AIDS and cancerous tumors – is a dividing line between life and death for millions of people infected with HIV. However, the sudden cessation of funding allocated to these treatment programs may lead to an increase in the risk of a new outbreak of the virus, and leave the world facing a crisis similar to what was the case in the 1980s and 1990s, when AIDS claimed the lives of millions annually due to the absence of effective treatment.
Program(PEPFAR)Global in Danger
This dangerous global transformation is the result of the cessation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program, which is considered one of the most powerful global initiatives to combat HIV. Its cessation of work came after more than 20 years – launched by the US government in 2003 – and during these years more than 26 million people were saved in about 50 countries.
After many years of these sustainable global efforts, funding for the program was suspended, which puts all these efforts at risk. Millions of patients depend on it, which may cause higher rates of spread of the virus in the most vulnerable communities.
Appeal to the international community
Because of this, the World Health Organization called on the American government to find urgent solutions and approve additional exemptions that ensure the continued provision of treatment and care for those infected, warning that suspending this type of funding exacerbates the global health crisis and leads to the collapse of prevention and treatment programs that took decades to build and many joint efforts.
The suspension of funding for HIV control programs is also a serious threat to the path to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially Goal (3) good health and well-being, which seeks to eliminate AIDS by 2030. In addition, this financing gap, which threatens the lives of millions of patients, reinforces health inequalities, which undermines the efforts of Goal (10) to reduce inequalities.
In conclusion, Earth Guards highlights this global warning; Because it cannot be ignored, especially if the lives of millions are at stake, the health of people in all societies is a serious responsibility that should not be neglected, so that no one is left behind.
