Muhoozi pleads Trump to reinstate US AID in Uganda

The Chief of Defense Forces Gen. Muhoozi kainerugaba has pleaded with US President Donald Trump to reinstate US AID in the country.

Trump passed an executive order suspending all US Aid activities in Africa calling for an audit of the US tax payer’s money.

Al Jazeera reports that Trump’s government cut 90 percent of foreign contracts funded by the US aid agency (USAID) and sacked thousands of its staff in Washington.

And on Thursday came news that the Trump administration had decided to stop funding UNAIDS, the UN’s HIV/AIDS programme that serves communities around the world.

In a report this week, UNAIDS said at least 55 countries around the world had reported funding cuts to HIV programmes, including several in African countries. That included halts to 55 HIV projects supported by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) or that received part US funding.

African countries bear the biggest burden of the HIV epidemic, with an estimated 25 million living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, out of the total 38 million people living with HIV worldwide.

The ban on US Aid means Ugandans shall also be affected especially those living with HIV. It’s upon this that Muhoozi asked Trump to reinstate the aid to Uganda.

“I want to ask President Donald Trump to reinstate US support for AIDS sufferers in Uganda. Our people will be grateful.”