The UK has been cut 15% of its contribution to a leading aid fund that prevents diseases, a decision which gtiuties say could be fatal.
The UK will commit £850m in global funding to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria over 2027-29, against the £1bn promised by the Conservative government for the last funding.
While the amount, which was announced in a written statement by the government, is slightly higher than the figure of £800m previously discussed by senior officials in the efforts of the global fight against diseases.
The total amount given by all countries to the global fund will be announced later this month at an event hosted by the UK in Sundines South Africa due to attend.
Aid groups have warned of a significant cut of money in the UK, on top of a 30% reduction in the UK’s previous contribution to the previous fund in the first blow of Donald Trump’s US AID.
The decision caused consternation among some Labor MPs, with many warning against a cut. Last week a group of seven MPs who served as ministers under Stillmer wrote to the Prime Minister that a cut “is a failed disaster” and a strategic disaster “and a strategic disaster” and a strategic disaster.
But government officials argue that it shows the ministers who prioritized the global fund in the context of the greater overage of 1.7% of the national income by 0.5% and will fall to 20.3%.
Officials said that other aid commitments – for example, to Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine – even amount to “a good vote of global funding” in this context.
However, there are real references from the cut. If the expectation is for a 20% cut to £800m, an aid agency estimated That would cause 340,000 avoidable deaths and nearly 5.9 million avoidable infections over the three-year funding period.
Kitty Arie, the Chief Executive of the results of the UK, an advocacy group of AID, “The decision to imagine the motivation to fight a pledge in this fight with the ADST with a serious motivation to fight a pledge in this fight with the ADST with a serious motivation to fight in the ADS to fight a country that is fighting a pledge in this fight ADST with a heavy commitment to face the motivations to fight a mortgage in this fight AID Endangered the issues that the UK government says are priorities: Global health, strengthening pandemic preparedness and improving global security.
“This decision takes us in a different direction – to prevent decades of progress and weaken our ability to respond to future threats.”
Mike Podmore, the Chief Executive of the Stopaids Campaign, said the cut “threatens the real possibility of ending aid by 2030”.
He said: “Although it remains a substantial contribution, the cut could hinder the global fund’s capacity to sustain current progress and carry out its life-saving work. From marginalized communities being denied access to prevention services to people living with HIV facing disruptions to essential medicines, these reductions will have an immediate and devastating impact on lives across the world.”