- Jodie Curtis: Senior policy advisor and healthy policy team co lead and US NTD roundtable. They fired the majority of staff of USAID. It started with an executive order. it cannot change regulation, it should not change laws, but does affect how to do it. What it did was pause all funding for 90 day period for a review. determine if they were efficient and aligned with america first. 90 days is unusual. the pause includes disbursments of funding, including those authorized. that has been challenged in court and in general despite some waivers for live-saving cosas, it has completed its foreign aid review and will terminate around 10k. 93%. No master list out there. This affects the work going forward and what will go forward once the pausing stops. They have declared that the effort of DOGE likely violates the Constitution. For all practical purposes USAID is shut down. As of yesterday, there's 4 main contracts under the program regarding UTC. ActWest and ActEast. ActWest terminated almost immediately but it has been rescinded.
- TaskForce y otros también han dejado de recibir pasta.
- Teoricamente se financia USAID. No hay espacio para NTDs en esta legislación, que solo habla de "global health". Hay propuestas sobre qué va a pasar going forward: reestructurar US international efforts para que sea más lean. embebido con el state department. Combatir la belt and road initiative. Democracy promotion, religious freedom. No está claro quién ha aceptado esta propuestsa o si realmente se va a hacer. en cualquier caso, todas las propuestas ponen USAID bajo el departamento de estado. No creo que de ninguna manera se va a parecer a nadie que fuese antes. Nadie sabe lo que va a pasar. Han despedido a todas las personas que tendrían capacidad para trabajar con comodities and procurement. Convened a small group of people to align. we've met members of congress about ntd. supportive, the value of the ntd program and we've received good traction. UTC has supported us. Focused to get the program to resume y no sabemos cual es el roadmap. pusheamos donde podemos.
- No queremos que lo que quede sea exclusivamente "humanitarian". Los argumentos que mejor. 1 billion dolars worth of drugs pledged
- No queremos que lo que quede sea exclusivamente "humanitarian". Los argumentos que mejor funcionan son que 1 billion dolars worth of drugs pledged se iran a la basura si no se reactivan los programas. es un mensaje potente especialmente para republicanos. hay una luz al final del tunel porque puedes eliminar una ntd como probelma de salud pública. Cuando acabas con una puedes pasar a otra.
borja
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