A Message to the US Congress: Do the Right Thing

May 25, 2017The Trump Administration ’s FY2018 budget proposal and other proposed policies would leave us all vulnerable to health threats.We atIntraHealth Internationalare alarmed by the troubling signals sent by President Trump ’s Administration this week, including the proposed budget for fiscal year 2018. We believe the proposal would lead to a deterioration of American leadership in global health and development and have a devastating impact on the health and security of people around the globe.In the past week, the Administration has:Proposed a 26% decrease in global health funding at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Department of State, including the proposed complete elimination of funding for family planning;Publicly released guidance for its expansion of the Global Gag Rule, which is expanded by 15 orders of magnitude and, for the first time, affects nearly all global health-related United States (US) government-funded programs —the result of which could leave millions of people around the world without access to the full range of essential reproductive health services as well as basic primary health care services;Continued its review to reorganize and possibly eliminate global development federal agencies and programs, including USAID, which has played a vital independent role in leading America ’s development and global health efforts for more than 50 years.American leadership over the past few decades has been critical to...
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