USAID Saves lives

There is so much misinformation about USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) being spread, that I thought it would be a good idea to list some of the crucially excellent keynote works it oversees, facilitates and funds when it comes to health initiatives:


•Health systems strengthening
USAID helps strengthen health systems by improving policies, leadership development, and financial and management support systems

•Maternal and newborn health
USAID improves access to, utilization of, and quality of essential maternal, newborn, and child health services

•Nutrition
USAID supports community-based interventions that focus on food security, livelihoods, and identification, treatment, referral, and support

•Infectious diseases
USAID strengthens health systems around the world by building better capacity to detect outbreaks, mitigate transmission, and prevent epidemics

•Tuberculosis
USAID has a global TB control program that has expanded since its launch in 1998

•Meeting PEPFAR priorities
USAID's Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project helps get life-saving HIV/AIDS commodities to millions of people

•Health commodities systems strengthening
USAID supports the procurement and systems management of key life-saving commodities


•Empowering digital health
USAID designs digital systems that prioritize person-centered care


The idea of closing this down is simply stunningly short sighted. I fear that we are in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.



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