UNAIDS CHINTS urges Carney to Reverse Funding Cuts for Organized World – Nationwide
The head of the United Nations ‘Aids’ Program is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to reverse his Government’s planned cuts to foreign aid and global health funding.
“My message to Prime Minister Carney, Canada, and all other donors, stay tuned,” UNAIDS senior director Winnie Byisanyana told Canada Report at the Johannesburg conference.
“Without global unity, inequality between countries will continue to widen. We will live in a very dangerous world as this inequality increases.”
Last week, it announced Canada’s first contribution to the Global Fund, a major program to fight infectious diseases in the world’s poorest countries.
The new funding pledge is 17 per cent lower than Ottawa’s last contribution to the fund in 2022. The fund helps fight the spread of diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria through the use of mosquito nets.
The move came just weeks after the federal budget prepared 7.7 billion in four-year cuts to Avirol Aid – And months after the spring election vowed that his government “would not take foreign aid.”
The Carney government argues the aid cuts bring spending back in line with Canada’s previous allocations.
Ottawa increased its development and human resources during the pandemic, in part to reverse the increased progress in combating major diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis as governments turned their attention to Covil-19. The United States is very excited about spending its money this year.
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BYANIMA was at the G20 leaders’ summit to help present a report by the South African government on global warming.
The report says that it opposes the economic stabbing within and between countries to generate anger that detracts from political unity and puts things at risk.
The authors call on governments to prevent the spread of violence and to adapt to it by following domestic policies and financial reform programs so that developing countries can escape the possible consequences of climate change.
ByAnyima said Canada can look to leaders like Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stre, who said his country has reaped many economic benefits from the boom in domestic workers over the decades.
“When we reduce inequality between countries and within countries, we actually have stronger economies,” said Byanima.
He also said that Canada should act after the Global efforts to deal with the opposition to the tax.
When pressed on the methods prescribed during his time in Johannesburg, Carney revealed that Canada’s share of the organization’s total funding had increased. This is because the total envelope of the Fund has decreased.
“We’ve had to make smart, responsible decisions across the board in the state, and that includes returning our aid budget to Alevel COVID,” Carney said. “At the same time, we are focused on where we have the most impact, especially on this continent.”
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand emphasized those points at a meeting in Johannesburg.
“Canada’s contribution is still meaningful. It’s still real. It’s still important,” he said.
“Africa is Canada’s biggest recipient of international aid, and our aid will continue.”
Bloc Québécois MP Alexis Brunelle-DUCEPPE said on Thursday there has been a “worrying” shift under Carney away from Canada’s long-standing Aid to Aid rights and human rights.
“There are more and more links being made between international aid and foreign trade in Mr. Carney’s vision,” French said.
The cuts come as evidence Mark World Aids Day on Monday, at a time when many say humanity is there to end the HIV epidemic but not the money to distribute proper treatment.
Jayati Ghosh, a prominent expert at the Indian Economist who presented the report on inequality and BYANIMA, said Canada should ensure that countries that promote health are not hindered by “an intellectual property regime that significantly raises the cost of essential medicines.”
The problem became prominent during the covid-19 pandemic, when many developing countries are waiting for rich countries to protect what has been created in developing their own types of vaccines.
“Governments should think, in ways that are not past (foreign aid), according to laws around the world that they are helping to support, in fact increase the growing conditions of developing countries,” Hhosh said.
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